Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.
2,158-word summary · 10 min read
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sedaris on French classes, family chaos, and learning to speak badly in two languages.
2,111-word summary · 9 min read
Everything, Everything
Maddy, allergic to the world, falls for Olly next door and risks outside to test what is true.
2,045-word summary · 9 min read
Dark Places
Libby Day, sole survivor of family murders, is paid to rethink her testimony.
1,910-word summary · 8 min read
Born a Crime
Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto.
1,980-word summary · 9 min read
Before We Were Yours
Avery uncovers her family's link to stolen orphans while Rill fights to keep her siblings together in 1939.
2,020-word summary · 9 min read
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Two Mexican American boys in 1987 El Paso become inseparable and learn what love asks of family.
2,093-word summary · 9 min read
American Dirt
Lydia and Luca flee Acapulco after cartel murder and ride north through Mexico toward the US.
2,079-word summary · 9 min read
All Your Perfects
Quinn and Graham's perfect love frays under infertility, and they must decide what perfect means now.
2,072-word summary · 9 min read
We Were Liars
Cadence Sinclair returns to Beechwood Island after an accident she cannot recall, chasing summers with Johnny, Mirren and Gat toward the truth.
1,923-word summary · 9 min read
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Lara Jean's secret love letters get mailed and she fake-dates Peter Kavinsky to dodge Josh.
3,683-word summary · 16 min read