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Great novels transport us into richly imagined worlds where characters grapple with life's deepest questions and society's thorniest challenges. Whether following a New Orleans misfit's misadventures or exploring dystopian futures and spiritual journeys, these transformative stories illuminate the full spectrum of human experience.

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Half of a Yellow Sun Summary
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2006 435 pages
4.34
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Nigeria
War
Great Expectations Summary
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 1861 544 pages
3.80
800k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
David Copperfield Summary
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages
4.04
200k+ ratings
Literature
Historical Fiction
19th Century
Les Misérables Summary
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo 1862 1463 pages
4.21
800k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Literature
France
شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة Summary
شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة
by José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968 245 pages
4.38
75k+ ratings
Classics
Childrens
Novels
Zeno's Conscience Summary
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo 1923 437 pages
3.77
29k+ ratings
Italian Literature
Italy
Literature
Sula Summary
Sula
by Toni Morrison 1973 174 pages
4.04
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
African American
The Fault in Our Stars Summary
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green 2012 313 pages
4.13
5.4M+ ratings
Young Adult
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
Heart of Darkness Summary
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages
3.43
500k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
To the Lighthouse Summary
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages
3.80
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Lady Chatterley’s Lover Summary
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence 1928 376 pages
3.50
100k+ ratings
Romance
Classics
Literature
White Teeth Summary
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith 2000 448 pages
3.79
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Novels
The Setting Sun Summary
The Setting Sun
by Osamu Dazai 1947 175 pages
3.98
36k+ ratings
Classics
Japanese Literature
Japan
The Gambler Summary
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 188 pages
3.91
100k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Summary
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey 1962 325 pages
4.20
700k+ ratings
Classics
Psychology
Literature
The Sun Also Rises Summary
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway 1926 189 pages
3.79
400k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Song of Solomon Summary
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages
4.15
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Fall of Giants Summary
Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett 2010 985 pages
4.32
300k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
War
Invisible Man Summary
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison 1952 581 pages
3.92
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Sympathizer Summary
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 371 pages
4.01
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
War
Asia
The Blind Owl Summary
The Blind Owl
by Sadegh Hedayat 1937 148 pages
3.97
31k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Novels
The Suicide Shop Summary
The Suicide Shop
by Jean Teulé 2007 169 pages
3.47
21k+ ratings
Humor
Novels
France
The Remains of the Day Summary
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 258 pages
4.14
300k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Literary Fiction
A Fraction of the Whole Summary
A Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz 2008 530 pages
4.14
23k+ ratings
Australia
Novels
Contemporary
Chess Story Summary
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig 1942 104 pages
4.27
100k+ ratings
German Literature
Short Stories
Literature
The Spinoza Problem Summary
The Spinoza Problem
by Irvin D. Yalom 2012 321 pages
4.26
17k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Historical Fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce 1916 329 pages
3.64
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Irish Literature
The Clown Summary
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll 1963 272 pages
3.93
30k+ ratings
German Literature
Classics
Novels
1985 Summary
1985
by Anthony Burgess 1978 240 pages
3.48
1k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Classics
سمفونی مردگان Summary
سمفونی مردگان
by Abbas Maroufi 1989 352 pages
4.24
19k+ ratings
Novels
Iran
Literature
Norwegian Wood Summary
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami 1987 296 pages
4.00
600k+ ratings
Romance
Japan
Japanese Literature
All the Pretty Horses Summary
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy 1992 302 pages
4.05
100k+ ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Classics
Mrs. Dalloway Summary
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf 1925 194 pages
3.79
300k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Brida Summary
Brida
by Paulo Coelho 1990 264 pages
3.50
81k+ ratings
Fantasy
Philosophy
Romance
For One More Day Summary
For One More Day
by Mitch Albom 2006 208 pages
4.13
100k+ ratings
Inspirational
Contemporary
Adult
Sex and Rage Summary
Sex and Rage
by Eve Babitz 1979 256 pages
3.57
15k+ ratings
Contemporary
Classics
Feminism
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Summary
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick 1968 244 pages
4.09
400k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Cyberpunk
The Circle Summary
The Circle
by Dave Eggers 2013 493 pages
3.43
200k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Contemporary
Heart of Darkness Summary
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages
3.43
500k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
A Farewell to Arms Summary
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway 1929 293 pages
3.82
300k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
War
Blindness Summary
Blindness
by José Saramago 1995 326 pages
4.18
300k+ ratings
Dystopia
Classics
Science Fiction
Too Loud a Solitude Summary
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages
3.98
24k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Novels
Journey to the End of the Night Summary
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 453 pages
4.19
45k+ ratings
France
Literature
French Literature
Slaughterhouse-Five Summary
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1969 275 pages
4.10
1.4M+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Historical Fiction
Oblomov Summary
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov 1859 586 pages
4.13
40k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Veronika Decides to Die Summary
Veronika Decides to Die
by Paulo Coelho 1998 285 pages
3.73
200k+ ratings
Contemporary
Philosophy
Novels
The Bell Jar Summary
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath 1963 294 pages
4.06
1M+ ratings
Feminism
Mental Health
Psychology
A Thousand Splendid Suns Summary
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini 2007 372 pages
4.44
1.6M+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Classics
Gulliver’s Travels Summary
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift 1726 306 pages
3.59
200k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Adventure
The Corrections Summary
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen 2001 653 pages
3.84
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Literary Fiction
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