A Study in Scarlet
Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.
2,208-word summary · 10 min read
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A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
Poppy travels to Atlantia with Hawke as Casteel while war, prophecies, and her own gifts close in.
3,048-word summary · 14 min read
Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins finds Flint's map, sails with Squire Trelawney's crew that hides pirates, and learns Long John Silver is both cook, friend, and mutineer.
2,179-word summary · 10 min read
The Wise Man's Fear
Kvothe leaves the University to serve Maer Alveron in Vintas, then survives Felurian, the Adem and a trial back home.
2,788-word summary · 12 min read
The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing creation, and the apple…
2,528-word summary · 11 min read
The Eye of the World
Farm boys flee Trollocs with Moiraine and Lan, split at Shadar Logoth, and trek to the Eye in the Blight.
2,454-word summary · 11 min read
Neverwhere
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
Moby-Dick
Ishmael ships with Queequeg on the Pequod as Ahab hunts the white whale.
2,198-word summary · 10 min read
Into Thin Air
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
Inferno
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
Heart of Darkness
Marlow pilots a steamer up the Congo for a trading company and seeks Kurtz, the brilliant agent who stopped sending ivory and started sending reports no one…
2,315-word summary · 10 min read
Dark Matter
Abducted from his Chicago family, Jason Dessen wakes in a life he never chose and fights through worlds to return.
2,707-word summary · 12 min read