Sourcery
A dying wizard hides his soul in a staff, his eighth son becomes a sourcerer strong enough to break the world, and Rincewind is sent to stop him with a sock.…
2,404-word summary · 11 min read
Books: S
183 books starting with S.
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
A married Tokyo bar owner reunites with his lost childhood sweetheart and must choose between steady family life and a haunting first love.
2,844-word summary · 13 min read
Spare
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023 memoir of grief, love…
2,586-word summary · 11 min read
Speak
After calling police at a party, ninth grader Melinda stops speaking until art helps her tell.
2,073-word summary · 9 min read
Speaker for the Dead
Ender speaks whole truths for alien deaths on a fenced colony where biology confuses murder.
1,992-word summary · 9 min read
Sphere
A Navy team finds a centuries-old spacecraft on the Pacific floor, and psychologist Norman Johnson faces what its sphere wakes in minds.
2,275-word summary · 10 min read
Spinning Silver
A moneylender's daughter says she can turn silver to gold, drawing a winter king, a plain duke's daughter, and a poor servant into one hard bargain.
2,813-word summary · 13 min read
Spirit Bound
Rose breaks Victor out of prison to cure Strigoi Dimitri, then faces a murder charge at Court.
2,829-word summary · 13 min read
Sputnik Sweetheart
K loves Sumire, Sumire loves Miu, and then Sumire vanishes from a Greek island into Murakami's quiet other side.
2,055-word summary · 9 min read
Spy x Family, Vol. 1
Spy Twilight builds fake family with assassin wife and telepath child.
2,201-word summary · 10 min read
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Lord's daughter Audrey Rose studies corpses in secret while the Ripper works Whitechapel beside Thomas.
2,030-word summary · 9 min read
Stardust
Tristran Thorn climbs over the wall of Wall to fetch a fallen star and finds Yvaine, witches, and princes hunting her.
2,490-word summary · 11 min read
Stargirl
Leo Borlock likes blending in until homeschooled Stargirl Caraway arrives at Mica High with a ukulele, a pet rat, and kindness that tests them both.
2,980-word summary · 13 min read
Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection
Nine Lunar Chronicles stories fill in the histories of Cinder, Wolf, Thorne, Cress, Winter, and Jacin, and end with a wedding after the war.
2,230-word summary · 10 min read
Starship Troopers
Rico earns citizenship through Mobile Infantry drops against Bugs.
2,071-word summary · 9 min read
Starsight
Spensa Nightshade goes undercover aboard the Superiority space station Starsight to steal a hyperdrive, and finds a frightened bureaucracy where she expected…
2,568-word summary · 11 min read
Start with Why
Great leaders start with Why before How and What, from Apple to King.
2,206-word summary · 10 min read
State of Wonder
A researcher travels into the Amazon to learn what happened to her colleague, and finds her fearsome former teacher guarding a fertility discovery.
2,648-word summary · 12 min read
Station Eleven
After a flu empties the world, a traveling troupe plays Shakespeare for small towns linked by one dead actor.
2,480-word summary · 11 min read
Steal Like an Artist
Kleon's 2012 illustrated guide gives ten principles for creative work, from borrowing openly and starting early to sharing, staying kind, and cutting the…
2,999-word summary · 13 min read
Steelheart
In steel-covered Newcago, David Charleston joins the Reckoners to kill the invincible Epic Steelheart, the tyrant who murdered his father.
2,190-word summary · 10 min read
Stellaluna
A baby fruit bat falls into a bird nest, learns to perch and eat bugs, then reunites with her mother in Cannon's acclaimed 1993 picture book about difference…
2,486-word summary · 11 min read
Steppenwolf
Harry Haller, half man and half wolf in his own mind, dances, loves, and enters a magic theatre in Hesse's strange 1927 novel.
3,181-word summary · 14 min read