All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
2,543-word summary · 11 min read
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The Alice Network
Two women, two wars: Eve spied for the Alice Network in 1915 France, Charlie searches for her cousin in 1947, and their road trip pulls both stories together.
2,090-word summary · 9 min read
Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, from Sunja's fall and brave marriage to pachinko parlors, discrimination, and sons who choose different ways to…
2,210-word summary · 10 min read
Number the Stars
Ten year old Annemarie helps her Jewish best friend escape occupied Copenhagen.
2,032-word summary · 9 min read
Carrie Soto Is Back
Champion Carrie Soto returns at thirty seven with father Javier to reclaim twenty Slams.
2,097-word summary · 9 min read
A Gentleman in Moscow
Count Rostov lives under house arrest in the Metropol and builds family from staff.
2,139-word summary · 10 min read
11/22/63
A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in.
2,799-word summary · 12 min read
The Shadow of the Wind
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches.
2,000-word summary · 9 min read
The Red Tent
Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.
2,014-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
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris retells the years of Lale Sokolov as tattooist at Auschwitz Birkenau, his love for Gita Furman, and the food trades and quiet risks that kept…
2,442-word summary · 11 min read
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Addie trades her soul for freedom in 1714 France and lives forgotten for 300 years, until a Brooklyn bookseller remembers her name.
3,480-word summary · 15 min read