The Thursday Murder Club
Four residents of Coopers Chase meet weekly to solve cold cases until developer Tony Curran is murdered and the Thursday Murder Club must work with police…
2,739-word summary · 12 min read
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The Time Machine
Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
2,335-word summary · 10 min read
The Time Traveler's Wife
Niffenegger's Time Traveler's Wife retold: Henry's jumps, Clare waiting, art, and a marriage in two tenses.
1,932-word summary · 9 min read
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
How tiny shifts push ideas and products past a tipping point into epidemics.
2,014-word summary · 9 min read
The Titan's Curse
Percy joins a winter quest to save Annabeth and Artemis with Thalia, Grover, Bianca and Zoe, facing Atlas and Luke under a hard Oracle prophecy on Mount…
2,229-word summary · 10 min read
The Trial
Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.
2,318-word summary · 10 min read
The Two Towers
Frodo and Sam crawl toward Mordor with Gollum while Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli chase orcs across Rohan.
2,284-word summary · 10 min read
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague.
2,427-word summary · 11 min read
The Underground Railroad
Cora escapes Georgia on a literal railroad through states of terror and hope.
2,936-word summary · 13 min read
The Unhoneymooners
Olive Torres takes her sister's Hawaii honeymoon with enemy Ethan Thomas after food poisoning ruins the wedding.
2,864-word summary · 13 min read
The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white.
1,971-word summary · 9 min read
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle's hungry caterpillar eats through the week and turns into a butterfly: what the holes, counts, and days teach, and why kids still ask for it again.
2,413-word summary · 11 min read