The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A lanky schoolmaster courts a farmer's daughter in a haunted Dutch valley until a midnight ride by the Headless Horseman ends at the bridge.
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, in a Penguin Classics selection edited by Ronald de Leeuw, trace a decade of work, faith, and obsession.
2,611-word summary · 12 min read
The Library Book
Susan Orlean investigates the 1986 Los Angeles Central Library fire and suspect Harry Peak while tracing library history, her mother's influence, and the…
2,319-word summary · 10 min read
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Locke Lamora leads con artists in Camorr until a rival boss and a deadly coup force a fight for survival.
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The Life We Bury
A college junior interviews a dying convict for class and reopens a 30-year-old murder case in Minnesota.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo teaches the KonMari method: keep only what sparks joy, tidied by category for a lasting home reset.
2,413-word summary · 11 min read
The Light Between Oceans
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.
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The Light Fantastic
Rincewind and Twoflower fall off the world while wizards race a red star.
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The Light We Lost
Jill Santopolo's 2017 romance follows Lucy and Gabe from a Columbia meeting in 2001 through thirteen years of reunions and partings shaped by ambition and…
2,451-word summary · 11 min read
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief retold: Percy Jackson, Camp Half-Blood, the stolen bolt, and the road trip to the Underworld.
2,581-word summary · 11 min read
The Likeness
A detective poses as her murdered double and moves in with four graduate students to find the killer.
2,751-word summary · 12 min read
The Lincoln Highway
Emmett and Billy plan California in 1954, but two escapees steal their car and drag them east to New York.
2,954-word summary · 13 min read
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mickey Haller defends a rich assault suspect from his Lincoln while doubting his innocence.
2,317-word summary · 10 min read
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis's Narnia opener retold: four Pevensies, the White Witch's winter, Aslan's sacrifice, and the crowning at Cair Paravel.
2,502-word summary · 11 min read
The Little Book of Hygge
Denmark happiness researcher tours candles, cake and cozy winter light.
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The Little Engine That Could
Watty Piper follows a stranded toy train past proud engines that refuse, to a small blue switcher who agrees to try the mountain and pulls her chanting load…
2,311-word summary · 10 min read
The Little Paris Bookshop
A Paris bookseller who prescribes novels as medicine finally opens a twenty one year old letter from his lost love and sails south through France to find her.
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The Little Prince
Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince retold: a pilot, a rose, the fox, and what matters is invisible.
2,492-word summary · 11 min read
The Locked Door
Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.
2,465-word summary · 11 min read
The Long Walk
One hundred boys walk until one remains, watched by soldiers and the Major, in Bachman's 1979 contest story.
3,056-word summary · 14 min read
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Runaway clerk Rosemary joins the Wayfarer crew for a year long tunnel job that tests family and love.
3,295-word summary · 15 min read
The Long Winter
Dakota Territory, 1880: seven months of blizzards cut a town off from the railroad, and a family survives on twisted hay, ground wheat, and a dangerous wheat…
2,210-word summary · 10 min read
The Longest Ride
A stranded widower relives his marriage while a Wake Forest student and a bull rider test new love in North Carolina.
2,488-word summary · 11 min read
The Lorax
The Once-ler fells Truffula Trees for Thneed greed despite the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, warning him to stop.
2,563-word summary · 11 min read