Books: S
183 books starting with S.
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Summer Island
A radio advice host hides a scandal, and the estranged daughter hired to write about it agrees to care for her at the family's island house.
2,325-word summary · 10 min read
Summer Knight
Harry refuses Mab to solve a Summer Knight murder and stop fairy war.
2,147-word summary · 10 min read
Summer of '69
Four Levin siblings split for summer 1969 as Vietnam, pregnancy and first love pull the family apart.
2,886-word summary · 13 min read
Summer Sisters
Vix and Caitlin share Martha's Vineyard summers from age twelve into adulthood, through first love, grief, marriage, and a disappearance that still haunts Vix.
3,633-word summary · 16 min read
Superfan
A lonely Austin freshman pours herself into a boy band forum while her idol Halo hides a tragic past that could ruin them both.
2,127-word summary · 9 min read
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Levitt and Dubner apply incentives to prostitutes, suicide bombers, doctors, and climate fixes with cheeky data.
2,007-word summary · 9 min read
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Feynman drums, cracks safes, and learns by doing from Los Alamos to Caltech classrooms.
1,946-word summary · 9 min read
Survive the Night
Film student Charlie rides with possible Campus Killer Josh in 1991.
2,612-word summary · 12 min read
Survivor
Tender Branson, last Creedish survivor, confesses into a flight recorder as his plane dives, from servant to agent-made celebrity messiah in Palahniuk's 1999…
2,683-word summary · 12 min read
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
A dumped editor reads a Vineyard mother's diary that reframes everything.
2,087-word summary · 9 min read
Switched
A Minnesota teenager who can make people obey her discovers she is a changeling troll princess, and the hidden kingdom she came from wants her back.
2,131-word summary · 9 min read
Sword of Destiny
Geralt hunts a golden dragon, faces a doppler in Novigrad, and meets Ciri in Brokilon as old promises close around him.
2,256-word summary · 10 min read
Sybil
A 1973 case study of a woman treated for multiple personalities, and the book that made dissociative identity disorder a household phrase.
2,054-word summary · 9 min read
Sycamore Row
Jake Brigance returns to defend a contested will that leaves a fortune to a Black housekeeper in racially tense Clanton.
2,017-word summary · 9 min read