Foster
A girl spends a summer with relatives on a Wexford farm and is cared for properly for the first time. A spare novella about family and what children notice…
2,043-word summary · 9 min read
Books: F
104 books starting with F.
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Foundation
Seldon predicts the Empire will fall and seeds Terminus to cut the dark age to a thousand years.
2,706-word summary · 12 min read
Foundation and Empire
The Foundation faces a dying Empire and a mutant conqueror called the Mule who can bend minds.
2,026-word summary · 9 min read
Foundation's Edge
Exiled councilman Golan Trevize hunts for the Second Foundation and the lost world of Earth, and finds a planet with one mind waiting to change the galaxy.
2,335-word summary · 10 min read
Four Past Midnight
Four novellas about a plane lost in time, a writer haunted, and horrors small and large.
2,584-word summary · 11 min read
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman turns the whole productivity project on its head, arguing that a human lifespan of roughly four thousand weeks is not a problem to optimize…
2,447-word summary · 11 min read
Four to Score
Stephanie hunts waitress Maxine Nowicki through coded clues, firebombs, and counterfeit cash while living with Morelli in Trenton.
2,870-word summary · 13 min read
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing retold: Violet enters Basgiath, bonds Tairn, and learns what the wards hide.
2,580-word summary · 11 min read
Fracture Me
Adam Kent narrates this short bridge story after Omega Point falls, hiding with his little brother James while facing his fading place beside Juliette. Best…
3,004-word summary · 13 min read
Frankenstein
Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal.
1,901-word summary · 8 min read
Franny and Zooey
Two Glass family siblings wrestle with faith, phoniness, and breakdown across a weekend visit and a long phone call home.
2,286-word summary · 10 min read
Freakonomics
Levitt asks why cheating teachers, sumo wrestlers and crime drops share incentives.
4,055-word summary · 18 min read
Freedom
A St. Paul couple and their grown children strain marriage, loyalty, and ideals in 2000s America.
2,678-word summary · 12 min read
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Evelyn meets Ninny in a nursing home and hears the story of Idgie and Ruth and their Alabama cafe.
2,825-word summary · 13 min read
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Matthew Perry revisits Friends fame and a long struggle with addiction, from junior tennis to Chandler Bing to a 2018 health crisis, with blunt humor.
2,258-word summary · 10 min read
Frindle
Nick Allen calls a pen frindle, defies Mrs. Granger and a school ban, and watches the joke grow into news, trademarks, and a dictionary entry.
2,405-word summary · 11 min read
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Five short stories about a cheerful frog and a grumpy toad who need each other for waking up, swimming, and waiting for the mail.
1,969-word summary · 9 min read
From Blood and Ash
Chosen Maiden Poppy guards her veil and her heart until guard Hawke questions everything she was taught.
2,170-word summary · 10 min read
From Dead to Worse
Sookie mediates a Were war and vampire takeover while learning about her fairy blood.
2,533-word summary · 11 min read
From Lukov with Love
Stalled skater Jasmine pairs with rude champion Lukov for one last season built on 5 a.m. ice.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Claudia and Jamie run away to the Met, chase whether a 225 dollar Angel is a Michelangelo, and trade secrets with Mrs. Frankweiler.
2,774-word summary · 12 min read
Frostbite
Rose guards royals at ski lodge as Strigoi hunt Moroi during break.
2,584-word summary · 11 min read
Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
An orphaned teen moves in with a cursed family who turn into zodiac animals, and slowly finds where she belongs.
2,284-word summary · 10 min read