Little House in the Big Woods
The Ingalls family spends a full year in a Wisconsin log cabin, filling the attic, marking Christmas, and sugaring maples in spring.
3,884-word summary · 17 min read
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
A mouse gets a cookie and turns one small favor into a whole busy day.
2,560-word summary · 11 min read
I Know This Much Is True
A housepainter fights to free his schizophrenic twin from a locked ward while a grandfather's memoir and a lost marriage resurface. Long, heavy, hard to forget.
2,533-word summary · 11 min read
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
A Chinese American boy befriends a Japanese American girl in wartime Seattle, then loses her to the internment camps.
2,973-word summary · 13 min read
Hamnet
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
Good in Bed
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
Go Set a Watchman
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
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedaris on snow days, rental houses, Dutch Christmas, and the family that made him funny.
3,098-word summary · 14 min read
Defending Jacob
A Newton prosecutor defends his fourteen year old son after a classmate is stabbed in the park.
2,994-word summary · 13 min read
Convenience Store Woman
At 36, Keiko has worked at a Tokyo convenience store for 18 years and loves it. Family pressure to marry pushes her toward a strange fake partnership.
2,989-word summary · 13 min read
A Monster Calls
A grieving boy is visited at 12:07 by a yew tree monster whose three tales force his hidden truth about his mother's illness.
3,353-word summary · 15 min read
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
2,522-word summary · 11 min read
Tom Lake
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
The Push
Blythe fears daughter Violet is dangerous while husband Fox doubts her.
2,260-word summary · 10 min read
The Paper Palace
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
2,588-word summary · 12 min read
The Locked Door
Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.
2,465-word summary · 11 min read
The Last Lecture
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
2,579-word summary · 11 min read
The Karamazov Brothers
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
2,512-word summary · 11 min read
Terms and Conditions
Declan must marry to inherit, so he offers his assistant a deal with rules.
2,695-word summary · 12 min read
Still Alice
Harvard professor Alice Howland faces early onset Alzheimer's and her family must adapt as memory fades.
2,477-word summary · 11 min read
She's Come Undone
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
2,550-word summary · 11 min read
Safe Haven
Katie hides in Southport from a violent husband and falls for widower Alex.
2,480-word summary · 11 min read
Running with Scissors
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
2,036-word summary · 9 min read
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Colin Bridgerton returns and discovers Penelope Featherington is Lady Whistledown.
2,388-word summary · 11 min read