The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect, cannot go to work, and watches his family shift from shock to cold relief.
2,295-word summary · 10 min read
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The Last Thing He Told Me
Hannah Hall gets a note saying Protect her, then her husband vanishes and she must team with his teen daughter to find why.
2,951-word summary · 13 min read
The Great Alone
The Allbright family moves to Alaska in the 1970s where Ernt's PTSD and winter test Leni.
3,460-word summary · 15 min read
The Grapes of Wrath
The Joads lose their Oklahoma farm and drive to California for work that is not there.
3,400-word summary · 15 min read
Sharp Objects
Reporter Camille Preaker returns to Wind Gap to cover two murdered girls, facing her cold mother Adora, wild sister Amma, and scars that spell her past. Full…
2,434-word summary · 11 min read
Matilda
Brilliant Matilda Wormwood teaches herself to read, faces her crooked parents and the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, and finds Miss Honey.
2,296-word summary · 10 min read
Malibu Rising
The Riva siblings throw their famous August 1983 Malibu party as old family wounds surface, in Taylor Jenkins Reid's sunlit story of fame, surf, and starting…
2,587-word summary · 11 min read
Little Fires Everywhere
In planned Shaker Heights, Elena Richardson rents to drifting artist Mia Warren, and a custody fight over baby May Ling splits friends and teens.
1,911-word summary · 8 min read
If I Stay
Mia Hall watches her body after a crash and must decide whether to live for Adam and cello.
3,907-word summary · 17 min read
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy recalls child acting, her mother's control, eating disorders, and the slow work of getting free.
2,049-word summary · 9 min read
Big Little Lies
In Pirriwee three mothers collide over school, marriage, and secrets until a trivia night death forces the truth about Perry abuse, Celeste fear, and Jane past.
2,582-word summary · 11 min read
The Secret Life of Bees
Lily runs from her father with Rosaleen to Tiburon, finding shelter with beekeeping sisters.
2,207-word summary · 10 min read
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones retold: Susie watches from above as her family hunts her killer.
2,257-word summary · 10 min read
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls's memoir of a childhood spent hungry and moving, from a stove fire at three to a Bronx apartment and parents on the street.
2,255-word summary · 10 min read
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Curious Incident retold: Christopher finds Wellington dead, maps primes, seeks truth in Swindon.
2,146-word summary · 10 min read
Reminders of Him
Kenna returns after prison to meet the daughter she lost, facing the family that blames her.
2,168-word summary · 10 min read
My Sister's Keeper
Thirteen-year-old Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation so she can refuse to give her dying sister Kate a kidney.
2,332-word summary · 10 min read
Little Women
Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.
2,487-word summary · 11 min read
Educated
Educated retold: Idaho scrapyard, no school, BYU, Cambridge, break with father and brother.
1,931-word summary · 9 min read
It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us from Lily's flower shop to her marriage: alternating past and present, Ryle's cycles of violence, and why the ending refuses a clean romantic…
2,381-word summary · 11 min read