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Inferno

Dan Brown · 2013

Dan Brown's Inferno retold: Robert Langdon wakes in Florence with lost memory, follows Dante's clues with Sienna Brooks from Palazzo Vecchio to Venice and…

2,395-word summary · 11 min read

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer · 1997

Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster: a guided summit push, a sudden storm, and the choices that left eight dead above 26,000 feet.

2,447-word summary · 11 min read

Layla

Colleen Hoover · 2020

Leeds brings Layla back to the bed-and-breakfast where they met after a shooting changes her, then a new guest named Willow blurs every line he trusted.

2,211-word summary · 10 min read

Legend

Marie Lu · 2011

Day and June collide in the Republic: he is wanted for murder, she hunts him, then learns the truth about Metias and the plague.

2,609-word summary · 12 min read

Local Woman Missing

Mary Kubica · 2021

Two women vanish from one street. Eleven years later, a missing girl returns with no memory.

2,581-word summary · 11 min read

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez · 1985

Florentino waits fifty years for Fermina: youth letters, a marriage to Urbino, hundreds of affairs, and a river trip where old love gets a last hearing.

2,204-word summary · 10 min read

Love on the Brain

Ali Hazelwood · 2022

Bee Konigswasser lands her dream NASA neuroengineering lead and must co-lead with grad-school nemesis Levi Ward, while her equipment fails and someone…

2,176-word summary · 10 min read

Marked

P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast · 2007

Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledgling vampyre and sent to Tulsa's House of Night, where Goddess-gifted powers, new friends, and a corrupt queen bee test her…

2,101-word summary · 9 min read

Maybe Someday

Colleen Hoover · 2014

Sydney moves across the hall after betrayal and writes songs with deaf guitarist Ridge.

2,077-word summary · 9 min read

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Ishmael ships with Queequeg on the Pequod as Ahab hunts the white whale.

2,198-word summary · 10 min read

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman · 1996

Richard Mayhew helps a bleeding girl in London and slips into London Below, a hidden city of killers, bargains and angels.

2,689-word summary · 12 min read