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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