The Prince
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
2,204-word summary · 10 min read
Latest summaries
Page 104 of 129
The Push
Blythe fears daughter Violet is dangerous while husband Fox doubts her.
2,260-word summary · 10 min read
The Raven Boys
Blue Sargent joins four Aglionby boys hunting a Welsh king on a Virginia ley line.
2,537-word summary · 11 min read
The Score
Playboy Dean chases Allie, who wants a fresh start after a bad breakup.
2,700-word summary · 12 min read
the sun and her flowers
Kaur follows love and loss through wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming in short illustrated poems.
2,364-word summary · 11 min read
The Sun Is Also a Star
On deportation day, Natasha meets Daniel, who bets hours and science can make her fall in love.
2,209-word summary · 10 min read
The Testaments
Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.
2,516-word summary · 11 min read
The Thorn Birds
Meggie loves priest Ralph across decades on Drogheda sheep station.
2,280-word summary · 10 min read
The Three Musketeers
Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.
2,569-word summary · 11 min read
The Three-Body Problem
A physicist meets a secret from the Cultural Revolution and a game that models a dying alien sky.
2,465-word summary · 11 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 Virgin Suicides
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
2,559-word summary · 11 min read
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
2,230-word summary · 10 min read
Things Fall Apart
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries and courts remaking…
2,518-word summary · 11 min read
Think and Grow Rich
Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.
2,458-word summary · 11 min read
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.
2,554-word summary · 11 min read
Tom Lake
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
War and Peace
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
2,536-word summary · 11 min read
Ways of Seeing
Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.
4,357-word summary · 19 min read
White Oleander
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
2,569-word summary · 11 min read
Words of Radiance
Kaladin guards Dalinar, Shallan hunts Urithiru, and the Everstorm gathers.
2,754-word summary · 12 min read
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
2,522-word summary · 11 min read
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Thiel argues monopolies create value through vertical progress, not by copying competition.
2,582-word summary · 11 min read
Credence
An orphaned teen spends a mountain winter with her guardian and his two sons, and lines blur.
2,723-word summary · 12 min read