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The Stand

Stephen King · 1978

A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns.

1,959-word summary · 9 min read

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin · 2014

A widowed bookseller on Alice Island adopts abandoned toddler Maya, rebuilds Island Books, and finds love with sales rep Amelia before illness closes in.

2,972-word summary · 13 min read

The Story of Art

E.H. Gombrich · 1950

Gombrich traces art from cave painting to modernism with clear stories and famous images.

2,520-word summary · 11 min read

The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult · 2013

Baker Sage Singer is asked by old Josef Weber to kill him for his SS past, while her grandmother Minka's war story weighs on her.

2,174-word summary · 10 min read

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.

2,286-word summary · 10 min read

The Stranger

Albert Camus · 1942

Meursault buries his mother, kills a man on an Algiers beach, and faces trial for seeming to feel nothing.

2,417-word summary · 11 min read

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson · 2016

Blogger Mark Manson argues for fewer cares held better, through suffering, values, failure and saying no, with raw stories.

2,020-word summary · 9 min read

The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman · 1997

Will finds a window to Cittagazze, meets Lyra, and both hunt the knife that cuts between worlds.

3,227-word summary · 14 min read

The Summer of Broken Rules

K.L. Walther · 2021

Meredith plays Assassin at Vineyard wedding a year after sister Claire died.

2,288-word summary · 10 min read

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway · 1926

Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.

3,187-word summary · 14 min read