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'Salem's Lot

Stephen King · 1975

A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.

2,046-word summary · 9 min read

11/22/63

Stephen King · 2011

A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in.

2,799-word summary · 12 min read

1984

George Orwell · 1949

A long retelling of George Orwell's 1984: Winston Smith's quiet rebellion in Oceania, the Party's grip on truth and memory, and why the ending still lands as…

2,110-word summary · 9 min read

1st to Die

James Patterson · 2001

Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.

2,536-word summary · 11 min read

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking · 1988

Hawking walks from ancient spheres to big bang, black holes, and time arrows without equations.

2,210-word summary · 10 min read

A Child Called It

Dave Pelzer · 1995

Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.

2,326-word summary · 10 min read

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843

Scrooge is visited by Marley and three spirits on Christmas Eve.

3,128-word summary · 14 min read

A Clash of Kings

George R. R. Martin · 1998

Five kings fight after Robert dies while Jon meets wildlings, Dany crosses the Red Waste, and Tyrion holds King's Landing.

4,262-word summary · 19 min read

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess · 1962

Teenage Alex leads his droogs on ultraviolent nights until the state rewrites him with the Ludovico Technique.

1,923-word summary · 9 min read