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The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis · 1983

Orphan Beth Harmon rises in chess while pills and drink threaten to take her.

2,027-word summary · 9 min read

The Racketeer

John Grisham · 2012

A jailed lawyer trades a judge murder secret for freedom and revenge.

2,434-word summary · 11 min read

The Rainbow Fish

Marcus Pfister · 1992

A shining fish learns loneliness ends when scales are shared one by one.

2,045-word summary · 9 min read

The Rainmaker

John Grisham · 1995

Broke rookie Rudy Baylor sues an insurer over a denied transplant and faces Leo Drummond at trial.

3,040-word summary · 14 min read

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe · 1845

A grieving student asks a midnight raven and hears only Nevermore.

2,141-word summary · 10 min read

The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater · 2012

Blue Sargent joins four Aglionby boys hunting a Welsh king on a Virginia ley line.

2,537-word summary · 11 min read

The Raven King

Maggie Stiefvater · 2016

Gansey's fated death nears as Glendower wakes and the ley wakes hungry.

2,477-word summary · 11 min read

The Re-Do List

Denise Williams · 2026

After a public breakup, Willow Lewis redoes her romantic firsts with her brother's best friend while dog-sitting in Des Moines.

2,390-word summary · 11 min read

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink · 1995

At fifteen Michael Berg loves Hanna Schmitz, then loses her without a word. Years later he sees her on trial for Nazi crimes and learns the illiteracy she hid.

2,481-word summary · 11 min read

The Reading List

Sara Nisha Adams · 2021

A lonely widower and a teen library worker connect through a mysterious list of books.

2,810-word summary · 12 min read

The Reckoning

Kelley Armstrong · 2010

Necromancer Chloe Saunders and her gifted friends raid Edison labs in the Darkest Powers finale, chasing rescue and freedom together as hidden powers break…

2,955-word summary · 13 min read

The Reckoning

Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti · 2020

Twin heirs survive trials and hazing at Zodiac Academy while the heirs start to split.

1,984-word summary · 9 min read

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane · 1895

Henry Fleming runs at Chancellorsville, then returns to stand.

2,486-word summary · 11 min read

The Red Pyramid

Rick Riordan · 2010

Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane wake the Egyptian gods and must stop Set from destroying the world.

2,682-word summary · 12 min read

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant · 1997

Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.

2,014-word summary · 9 min read

The Red Winter

Cameron Sullivan · 2026

In 1785 France, aging monster-slayer Sebastian Grave and his heart-eating demon return to hunt the Beast of Gevaudan as revolution brews.

2,578-word summary · 11 min read

The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 2000

Harry Hole chases an ageing sniper through modern Oslo while two Norwegian volunteers on the Eastern Front carry a fifty-year-old betrayal toward a royal…

2,453-word summary · 11 min read

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989

Stevens, the perfect English butler, drives west in 1956 and looks back on Darlington Hall, Miss Kenton, and a life spent serving.

2,971-word summary · 13 min read