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Watership Down

Richard Adams · 1972

Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.

2,550-word summary · 11 min read

What Alice Forgot

Liane Moriarty · 2009

After a gym fall erases ten years, Alice, 39, wakes as her 29 year old self and must relearn her three kids and failing marriage as a stranger.

2,495-word summary · 11 min read

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls · 1961

Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.

2,990-word summary · 13 min read

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson · 1998

A tiny parable about two mice and two little people hunting cheese in a maze, and why adapting to change beats waiting for old days to return.

2,533-word summary · 11 min read

Yours Truly

Abby Jimenez · 2023

Divorced ER doctor Briana Ortiz fake dates anxious newcomer Jacob Maddox, trading honest letters while her brother waits for a kidney donor.

2,475-word summary · 11 min read

'Salem's Lot

Stephen King · 1975

A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.

2,046-word summary · 9 min read

11/22/63

Stephen King · 2011

A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in.

2,799-word summary · 12 min read

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness · 2011

Historian Diana Bishop calls up a lost alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library and draws vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, plus every creature…

2,025-word summary · 9 min read

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles · 2016

Count Rostov lives under house arrest in the Metropol and builds family from staff.

2,139-word summary · 10 min read

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare · 1600

Four lovers flee to a forest where fairies mix them up, while workmen rehearse a play for a duke's wedding.

2,597-word summary · 12 min read

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll · 1865

Alice follows the White Rabbit, grows and shrinks through tea, croquet and trial.

2,055-word summary · 9 min read