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Corrupt

Penelope Douglas · 2015

College student Rika Fane faces Michael Crist and his friends three years after Devil's Night put them in prison.

2,870-word summary · 13 min read

Crescendo

Becca Fitzpatrick · 2010

Nora and Patch survived book one, but distance, Marcie Millar, and a letter about her father's killer pull them apart.

2,980-word summary · 13 min read

Cujo

Stephen King · 1981

A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.

2,910-word summary · 13 min read

Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom

Tsugumi Ohba · 2004

Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills with a written name, and the hidden detective L sets a trap to expose him.

2,989-word summary · 13 min read

Defending Jacob

William Landay · 2012

A Newton prosecutor defends his fourteen year old son after a classmate is stabbed in the park.

2,994-word summary · 13 min read

Defy Me

Tahereh Mafi · 2019

Kidnapped to Oceania, Ella faces her cruel parents and dying sister while Warner and Kenji fight to reach her.

2,833-word summary · 13 min read

Destroy Me

Tahereh Mafi · 2012

Shot by Juliette, Warner holds his base together while his father arrives with harsher plans for her.

2,556-word summary · 11 min read

Doctor Sleep

Stephen King · 2013

Grown Dan Torrance gets sober in New Hampshire and helps gifted Abra Stone face the True Knot.

2,841-word summary · 13 min read

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

A poor gentleman maddened by knight romances rides out as Don Quixote with Sancho Panza, until the world answers back.

3,785-word summary · 17 min read

Elantris

Brandon Sanderson · 2005

A prince thrown into a cursed city, a princess fighting court plots, and a priest on a deadline collide in Sanderson's debut.

4,049-word summary · 18 min read

Evermore

Alyson Noel · 2009

Ever Bloom survives the crash that kills her family and meets Damen, whose touch quiets the psychic noise in her head.

3,604-word summary · 16 min read

Fairy Tale

Stephen King · 2022

A grieving teen cares for a recluse and his old dog, then finds a shed well leading to Empis, a fading world at war.

3,203-word summary · 14 min read

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

An American dynamiter joins Spanish guerrillas for three days to blow a mountain bridge, finding love and doomed courage.

2,286-word summary · 10 min read

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Matthew Perry · 2022

Matthew Perry revisits Friends fame and a long struggle with addiction, from junior tennis to Chandler Bing to a 2018 health crisis, with blunt humor.

2,258-word summary · 10 min read

Go Ask Alice

Beatrice Sparks · 1971

A 15-year-old's diary slides from a party to running away to a hospital stay, sold as real in 1971 and still read as a warning about drugs.

2,526-word summary · 11 min read

Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee · 2015

Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb and finds her father changed: Lee's contested 2015 draft about family loyalty and race in Alabama.

3,478-word summary · 15 min read

Golden Son

Pierce Brown · 2015

Darrow serves House Augustus as a Gold officer while plotting revolt, until a gala refusal, a duel with Cassius, and a Triumph betrayal break his rise.

2,747-word summary · 12 min read

Good in Bed

Jennifer Weiner · 2001

Dumped in print by her ex, reporter Cannie Shapiro faces pregnancy, family mess and a fresh start in Philadelphia.

2,713-word summary · 12 min read

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · 1726

A ship's surgeon meets tiny Lilliputians, giant Brobdingnagians, Laputa's projectors, and rational horses in Swift's 1726 satire.

2,600-word summary · 12 min read

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell · 2020

Agnes Hathaway holds her Stratford family together while her husband works in London, until plague takes eleven-year-old Hamnet in 1596.

3,164-word summary · 14 min read

Heartless

Elsie Silver · 2022

Gruff single dad Cade Eaton hires bubbly Willa Grant as summer nanny in Chestnut Springs, and two months together wear down his walls.

2,967-word summary · 13 min read