The Goldfinch
Theo Decker steals a Dutch painting after a museum blast kills his mother, then drifts through guilt and crime.
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Joads lose their Oklahoma farm and drive to California for work that is not there.
3,400-word summary · 15 min read
The Graveyard Book
A toddler escapes the murder of his family and is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, learning from the dead while the killer who hunts him waits outside.
2,786-word summary · 12 min read
The Great Alone
The Allbright family moves to Alaska in the 1970s where Ernt's PTSD and winter test Leni.
3,460-word summary · 15 min read
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby through Nick Carraway: Gatsby's parties, the green light, Daisy and Tom, and why Fitzgerald's 1925 novel ends as a judgment on the American…
2,501-word summary · 11 min read
The Green Mile
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
2,549-word summary · 11 min read
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A London writer trades letters with Guernsey islanders after the war.
1,979-word summary · 9 min read
The Guest List
A storm traps Jules and Will's luxury wedding on remote Cormorant Island off Ireland, where secrets among Hannah, Olivia, Johnno and Aoife turn celebration…
2,380-word summary · 11 min read
The Gunslinger
Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.
2,071-word summary · 9 min read
The Handmaid's Tale
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale retold: Offred in Gilead, the Commander, Serena Joy, Mayday, and the van.
2,369-word summary · 11 min read
The Hate U Give
Starr Carter sees her friend Khalil shot by police and must choose whether to speak up.
3,309-word summary · 15 min read
The Hating Game
Two executive assistants share an office, a rivalry, and a promotion neither will concede without a fight.
1,945-word summary · 9 min read