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Eclipse

Stephenie Meyer · 2007

Twilight book 3 retold: Bella caught between Edward and Jacob as Victoria builds an army in Seattle.

2,060-word summary · 9 min read

Educated

Tara Westover · 2018

Educated retold: Idaho scrapyard, no school, BYU, Cambridge, break with father and brother.

1,931-word summary · 9 min read

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman · 2017

Eleanor keeps a rigid Glasgow routine until she and Raymond from IT help an old man who collapses in the street, and slowly remembers why.

2,277-word summary · 10 min read

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card · 1985

Ender Wiggin trains at Battle School to fight the Formics, winning games that turn out to be real.

2,039-word summary · 9 min read

Eragon

Christopher Paolini · 2003

Paolini's Eragon retold: a farm boy, a blue stone, Saphira the dragon, and the road to the Varden.

1,996-word summary · 9 min read

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury · 1953

Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 retold: Montag burns books, meets Clarisse, hides books, and follows the river to the readers.

2,336-word summary · 10 min read

Fifty Shades of Grey

E. L. James · 2011

E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey retold: Ana interviews Christian, the contract, the Red Room, and why she walks out.

2,507-word summary · 11 min read

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros · 2023

Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing retold: Violet enters Basgiath, bonds Tairn, and learns what the wards hide.

2,580-word summary · 11 min read

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818

Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal.

1,901-word summary · 8 min read

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn · 2012

Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl fully retold: Nick and Amy Dunne, the diary, Desi, the treasure hunt, and why the ending stays ugly.

2,334-word summary · 10 min read

Holes

Louis Sachar · 1998

Stanley Yelnats digs holes at Camp Green Lake while a broken promise, a buried outlaw, and a boy named Zero close in around him.

2,456-word summary · 11 min read

Insurgent

Veronica Roth · 2012

Insurgent retold: Tris guilty after war, Erudite hunts Divergent, Amity talks, Candor serum.

1,951-word summary · 9 min read

Iron Flame

Rebecca Yarros · 2023

Violet survives her first year at Basgiath and returns for war games, rebellion secrets, and a harder second year.

2,687-word summary · 12 min read

It Starts with Us

Colleen Hoover · 2022

It Starts with Us retold: Lily and Atlas after Ryle, co-parenting, second chances in Boston.

2,216-word summary · 10 min read

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre retold: Lowood, Thornfield, the attic secret, and Jane's refusal to shrink.

2,325-word summary · 10 min read

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus · 2022

Lessons in Chemistry retold: Elizabeth Zott fired, TV cooking with science, Six-Thirty helps.

1,951-word summary · 9 min read

Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 2001

Life of Pi retold: Pondicherry zoo, ship loss, Pi and Richard Parker in a boat, two stories.

1,936-word summary · 9 min read

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.

2,487-word summary · 11 min read

Looking for Alaska

John Green · 2005

Looking for Alaska retold: Miles at Culver Creek, Alaska Young, pranks, loss, before and after.

1,914-word summary · 9 min read

Lord of the Flies

William Golding · 1954

William Golding's Lord of the Flies retold: Ralph and Jack, the conch, the beast, Simon, Piggy, and why the rescue is no relief.

2,254-word summary · 10 min read

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes · 2012

Me Before You retold: Lou cares for Will in a Welsh annexe, trips and talks, choice and loss.

1,989-word summary · 9 min read

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden · 1997

Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha retold: Chiyo to Sayuri in Gion, Mameha, Hatsumomo, and the Chairman.

2,567-word summary · 11 min read

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult · 2004

Thirteen-year-old Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation so she can refuse to give her dying sister Kate a kidney.

2,332-word summary · 10 min read