Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Footbound Lily and Snow Flower share laotong bond through 19th century Hunan hardship.
2,557-word summary · 11 min read
Books: S
183 books starting with S.
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Arthur Dent finds Earth back again and meets Fenchurch, who sensed the planet's odd moment, in Adams's softer fourth Hitchhiker novel from 1984.
2,448-word summary · 11 min read
So Old, So Young
Six college friends reunite at five parties over twenty years in Ginder's funny, moving novel of millennial friendship.
2,457-word summary · 11 min read
So You Want to Talk About Race
Oluo gives plain rules for talking about race at work and home.
2,597-word summary · 12 min read
Solaris
Kelvin reaches a silent station above Solaris and finds grief made solid when the ocean returns his dead wife Rheya, testing memory, science, and the limits of…
2,548-word summary · 11 min read
Sold on a Monday
A reporter hides a Depression photo of children for sale and must face the cost.
2,501-word summary · 11 min read
Solitaire
Gloomy Tori Spring hunts school prank group Solitaire with odd Michael Holden while brother Charlie heals.
2,068-word summary · 9 min read
Someone Else's Shoes
A rich wife loses everything and a tired mom gains red heels when gym bags swap in London.
1,951-word summary · 9 min read
Someone Like You
Halley and her best friend Scarlett face a summer of grief, a surprise pregnancy, and Halley's dangerous first romance in Sarah Dessen's 1998 young adult novel.
2,218-word summary · 10 min read
Someone We Know
A teen burglar, two unsigned apology letters, and a murdered neighbor wife turn a quiet suburb paranoid.
2,743-word summary · 12 min read
Something Blue
Dumped while pregnant, Darcy flees to London to regrow up with help from an old friend she once wronged.
2,027-word summary · 9 min read
Something Borrowed
Good girl Rachel loves her best friend's fiance through a summer of weddings and lies.
2,100-word summary · 9 min read
Something in the Water
Honeymoon divers find a bag of cash and diamonds at sea, then lie until lies cost more.
1,943-word summary · 9 min read
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Two boyhood friends meet a late October carnival that feeds on secret wishes, while Will's father learns how to fight it.
2,869-word summary · 13 min read
Something Wilder
Lily Wilder runs staged treasure hunts in Utah until her first love Leo returns and the old legend turns dangerous.
2,556-word summary · 11 min read
Sometimes I Lie
Radio host Amber wakes in a coma, able to hear but not move. Her husband may not love her, and three timelines close in.
2,399-word summary · 11 min read
Song of Solomon
Milkman Dead leaves Michigan to hunt for family gold and finds instead the old song of his ancestor Solomon.
2,465-word summary · 11 min read
Song of Susannah
Mia takes Susannah to 1999 New York to bear a chap while Roland meets his author in Maine.
2,051-word summary · 9 min read
Sonnets & Poems
154 sonnets plus Venus and Adonis and other poems on time, love, and fading beauty.
2,341-word summary · 10 min read
Sophie's Choice
A young Southern writer in 1947 Brooklyn befriends a brilliant, unstable couple and slowly learns the story of the Polish Catholic woman at the center of their…
2,798-word summary · 12 min read
Sophie's World
Sophie gets philosophy lessons by mail, then finds she is fiction in a father birthday book for Hilde.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
Sorcery of Thorns
An apprentice librarian framed for sabotage joins a sorcerer and his demon servant to stop attacks on the Great Libraries.
2,926-word summary · 13 min read
Soulless
A soulless spinster in Victorian London nullifies supernaturals and solves disappearances.
2,362-word summary · 10 min read