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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Dr. Seuss · 1957

The Grinch steals Who presents and learns Christmas means more than gifts.

2,998-word summary · 13 min read

If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin · 2013

Childhood friends Autumn and Finn drift apart in high school until one August night changes everything.

2,785-word summary · 12 min read

Inkheart

Cornelia Funke · 2003

Bookbinder Mo reads characters alive and daughter Meggie is pulled into Capricorn's hunt for Inkheart.

2,910-word summary · 13 min read

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Mindy Kaling · 2011

Mindy Kaling recalls Boston childhood, Dartmouth comedy, New York hustle, and The Office writers room.

2,239-word summary · 10 min read

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl · 1961

Lonely James escapes two cruel aunts inside a giant peach with huge insect friends, rolling to the sea and floating on gulls to New York City.

2,384-word summary · 11 min read

Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez · 2024

Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka.

3,090-word summary · 14 min read

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami · 2002

Fifteen year old Kafka Tamura flees Tokyo while old Nakata, who talks to cats, drifts toward the same library town in Shikoku in parallel.

2,496-word summary · 11 min read

King of Wrath

Ana Huang · 2022

Billionaire Dante Russo enters an arranged engagement with Vivian Lau and control slips into feeling.

2,975-word summary · 13 min read

Love, Theoretically

Ali Hazelwood · 2023

Adjunct physicist Elsie Hannaway fake-dates for rent money until Jack Smith, an MIT experimentalist, stands between her and her dream job.

2,308-word summary · 10 min read

Marley & Me

John Grogan · 2005

A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.

2,167-word summary · 10 min read

Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis · 1952

C. S. Lewis builds a plain case for Christian belief from morals, faith, and habit.

2,923-word summary · 13 min read