The Silkworm
A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.
3,583-word summary · 16 min read
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The Silmarillion
Tolkien's posthumous First Age history, edited by Christopher Tolkien: the Music of the Ainur, Feanor's Silmarils, Beren and Luthien, Gondolin, and the fall of…
2,544-word summary · 11 min read
The Silver Chair
Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.
2,940-word summary · 13 min read
The Silver Linings Playbook
A man leaves a mental facility sure his wife waits, then dance practice and hard truths reshape him.
2,981-word summary · 13 min read
The Simple Wild
City Calla flies to Alaska to face dying father and gruff pilot Jonah, learning bush life and love.
2,284-word summary · 10 min read
The Sinner
Sin, a Lord at Barrington, rigs his secret society's rules to claim Elli, the girl he has protected since killing her abuser, while the conspiracy around her…
2,059-word summary · 9 min read
The Siren
Saved from a shipwreck in 1930, Kahlen becomes a siren who sings men to their deaths for the Ocean, until a boy in a college library makes her want a life she…
2,369-word summary · 11 min read
The Sirens of Titan
A ruined playboy is herded from Mars to Titan while a stranded robot waits for a spare part.
2,663-word summary · 12 min read
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Four best friends share one magical pair of jeans through the summer that changes everything.
2,092-word summary · 9 min read
The Sisters Brothers
Two hired killers ride from Oregon to Gold Rush California to murder a prospector, and find their trade, their brotherhood, and the frontier myth coming apart.
2,095-word summary · 9 min read
The Sky Is Everywhere
Lennie grieves Bailey while torn between Toby and Joe.
2,251-word summary · 10 min read
The Slippery Slope
Violet and Klaus climb icy peaks to rescue Sunny while Quigley and V.F.D. ruins change what they know.
2,678-word summary · 12 min read
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Auri tends the Underthing through seven days of naming and small rituals.
2,491-word summary · 11 min read
The Snow Child
Childless homesteaders build a snow girl who visits with a fox.
2,309-word summary · 10 min read
The Snowman
After the first snow, a mother vanishes and Harry Hole links her pink scarf to eleven missing women.
2,750-word summary · 12 min read
The Snowy Day
Peter in his red snowsuit explores fresh snow, from footprints and angels to a melted pocket snowball, in Keats classic winter day.
2,375-word summary · 11 min read
The Son of Neptune
Amnesiac Percy wakes at Camp Jupiter and quests to Alaska with Hazel and Frank to free Thanatos.
2,107-word summary · 9 min read
The Song of Achilles
Song of Achilles retold: Patroclus and Achilles from boys to Troy, love and war in Miller prose.
1,925-word summary · 9 min read
The Sorrows of Young Werther
A young artist writes letters about his love for Lotte, promised to another, until feeling turns fatal in Goethe's 1774 classic.
2,934-word summary · 13 min read
The Soulmate
A cliffside fall leaves a wife doubting her husband as old abuse and buried secrets surface.
2,126-word summary · 9 min read
The Soulmate Equation
Statistician Jess matches a genetics grump at top score ever, then tests dating by data.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read
The Sound and the Fury
A ruined Mississippi family seen through three brothers across four days, closing on Easter Sunday with their servant.
2,226-word summary · 10 min read
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
In 1990s Charleston, book club mom Patricia Campbell suspects charming newcomer James Harris is a vampire preying on neighborhood children.
2,398-word summary · 11 min read
The Spanish Love Deception
Lina needs a wedding date for Spain and her insufferable coworker Aaron Blackford volunteers.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read