The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The cells of a poor Black tobacco farmer revolutionized medicine, taken without her knowledge in 1951.
2,139-word summary · 10 min read
Latest summaries
Page 39 of 61
The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.
1,941-word summary · 9 min read
The Lost Symbol
Langdon races through Washington to save Solomon from a tattooed killer seeking an ancient Masonic secret.
2,145-word summary · 10 min read
The Mark of Athena
Seven demigods sail for Rome where Annabeth must follow the Mark to the Athena Parthenos alone.
2,031-word summary · 9 min read
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A man recalls age seven when a lodger's suicide let hunger birds in, and Lettie Hempstock saved him.
2,070-word summary · 9 min read
The One
Four girls remain in the Selection and America must choose between Prince Maxon and Aspen, and her future.
2,019-word summary · 9 min read
The Perfect Marriage
A defense lawyer defends her husband accused of killing his mistress.
2,084-word summary · 9 min read
The Pillars of the Earth
A priory, a builder, and a town raise a cathedral through war and fire.
2,068-word summary · 9 min read
The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Congo in 1959, and Africa remakes each of them.
2,227-word summary · 10 min read
The Queen of Nothing
Exiled Jude returns to Faerie to save Taryn and break a deadly curse.
2,091-word summary · 9 min read
The Red Tent
Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.
2,014-word summary · 9 min read
The Secret History
A California outsider joins six classics students whose Greek rite ends in murder.
2,735-word summary · 12 min read