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Icebreaker

Hannah Grace · 2022

Figure skater Anastasia Allen shares a rink with hockey captain Nate Hawkins and sparks fly at UC Maple Hills.

2,176-word summary · 10 min read

If I Stay

Gayle Forman · 2009

Mia Hall watches her body after a crash and must decide whether to live for Adam and cello.

3,907-word summary · 17 min read

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer · 1996

Jon Krakauer traces Chris McCandless from Emory graduation to an abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in 1992, asking what drove him to seek a spare life in…

2,526-word summary · 11 min read

It

Stephen King · 1986

Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.

2,229-word summary · 10 min read

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton · 1990

Hammond clones dinosaurs on Isla Nublar and invites Grant, Sattler and Malcolm to certify safety before opening.

2,388-word summary · 11 min read

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng · 2017

In planned Shaker Heights, Elena Richardson rents to drifting artist Mia Warren, and a custody fight over baby May Ling splits friends and teens.

1,911-word summary · 8 min read

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · 1955

Humbert Humbert confesses his obsession with Dolores Haze and the road trip that ruins them.

2,706-word summary · 12 min read

Macbeth

William Shakespeare · 1623

Macbeth hears witches hail him king and murders Duncan with Lady Macbeth pushing him on.

4,056-word summary · 18 min read

Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021

The Riva siblings throw their famous August 1983 Malibu party as old family wounds surface, in Taylor Jenkins Reid's sunlit story of fame, surf, and starting…

2,587-word summary · 11 min read

Matilda

Roald Dahl · 1988

Brilliant Matilda Wormwood teaches herself to read, faces her crooked parents and the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, and finds Miss Honey.

2,296-word summary · 10 min read

Never Lie

Freida McFadden · 2022

Newlyweds snowed in at a missing psychiatrist's house find tapes of patients.

3,849-word summary · 17 min read

November 9

Colleen Hoover · 2015

Fallon and Ben meet every November 9 for five years with no contact between, until his novel reveals the fire that scarred her.

2,547-word summary · 11 min read

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

Seven generations of the Buendia family rise and fall in Macondo, where memory, war and miracles blur together.

2,093-word summary · 9 min read

One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus · 2017

Five Bayview teens enter detention and Simon dies, leaving Bronwyn Nate Addy and Cooper suspects.

3,158-word summary · 14 min read

Outlander

Diana Gabaldon · 1991

Nurse Claire Randall slips through Craigh na Dun from 1945 to 1743 Scotland, torn between Frank and Jamie Fraser as clan politics, war and witch trials close…

2,190-word summary · 10 min read

Queen of Shadows

Sarah J. Maas · 2015

Celaena returns to Rifthold as Aelin to free magic, face Arobynn and the Valg, and reunite with Rowan and Chaol.

4,447-word summary · 20 min read

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 2011

In 2045 Wade Watts hunts Halliday's three keys inside the OASIS, racing IOI with Art3mis, Aech, Daito and Shoto for the Jade Key onward.

1,971-word summary · 9 min read

Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard · 2015

In a world split by red and silver blood, a Red girl with impossible powers is forced into palace lies, a royal engagement, and a rebellion she cannot trust.

2,522-word summary · 11 min read

Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston · 2019

America's First Son fakes a friendship with a British prince after a cake disaster, but private emails turn into a secret romance during a tense reelection…

2,496-word summary · 11 min read

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 1811

Elinor hides her heart and Marianne shows all of hers after the Dashwoods lose Norland, with Edward, Willoughby and Brandon circling.

1,936-word summary · 9 min read

Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo · 2012

Orphan Alina Starkov learns she is a Sun Summoner who may destroy the Shadow Fold, if the Darkling lets her.

2,284-word summary · 10 min read

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 2006

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to Wind Gap to cover two murdered girls, facing her cold mother Adora, wild sister Amma, and scars that spell her past. Full…

2,434-word summary · 11 min read

Shatter Me

Tahereh Mafi · 2011

Juliette Ferrars, whose touch kills, is locked up by the Reestablishment until Adam and Warner pull her into war.

2,115-word summary · 9 min read

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo · 2015

Kaz Brekker gathers five outcasts in Ketterdam for an impossible heist to steal jurda parem, a drug that makes Grisha power deadly.

2,292-word summary · 10 min read