The Monster at the End of This Book
Grover begs readers not to turn pages for fear of a monster, until the ending reveals himself.
2,061-word summary · 9 min read
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer mixes raunchy jokes with frank essays on family, dating, body image, and the shooting that pushed her into gun control advocacy.
2,259-word summary · 10 min read
The Eyre Affair
Literary detective Thursday Next chases a villain who kidnaps Jane Eyre from her own novel in an alternate 1985 England.
1,929-word summary · 9 min read
The Do-Over
Emilie relives awful Valentine Day with cheating boyfriend until Nick helps fix it.
2,071-word summary · 9 min read
The Dark Prophecy
Mortal Apollo and Leo cross America to free the Oracle as Commodus hunts them.
2,368-word summary · 11 min read
The Carnivorous Carnival
Baudelaires hide as carnival freaks to find V.F.D. clues, facing lions, Olaf, and a fateful cliff split.
2,027-word summary · 9 min read
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Levitt and Dubner apply incentives to prostitutes, suicide bombers, doctors, and climate fixes with cheeky data.
2,007-word summary · 9 min read
Small Gods
God Om trapped as a tortoise must convince novice Brutha to save Omnia from its own church.
2,063-word summary · 9 min read
Secretly Yours
A bubbly Napa gardener sends anonymous love letters to her grumpy professor neighbor in this steamy small-town rom-com.
2,504-word summary · 11 min read
Post Office
Chinaski drifts through postal shifts, cheap rooms, horse tracks and rough love in Bukowski's 1971 debut about work, drink and survival.
2,444-word summary · 11 min read
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned
Girls creator Lena Dunham's essays on work, bodies, love, and family, frank and funny with uneven edges.
2,156-word summary · 10 min read
My Killer Vacation
A teacher and a bounty hunter share a Cape Cod rental with a corpse and a growing attraction.
2,625-word summary · 12 min read
My Best Friend's Exorcism
Abby fights to save possessed best friend Gretchen in 1988 Charleston Satanic Panic horror.
2,115-word summary · 9 min read
Mr. Wrong Number
After a fire and a wrong-number text, Olivia falls for a stranger who is closer than she thinks in this funny Omaha rom com.
2,248-word summary · 10 min read
Mostly Harmless
Arthur makes sandwiches on Lamuella while Ford steals a Guide Mk II that wipes Earths across realities.
2,059-word summary · 9 min read
How to Sell a Haunted House
Siblings Louise and Mark must empty puppet filled parents house that fights back.
2,085-word summary · 9 min read
Hot Six
Stephanie Plum hunts a missing bail jumper tied to Ranger's mentor while Morelli, Lula, and Grandma Mazur stir Trenton chaos.
2,035-word summary · 9 min read
Holidays on Ice
Six Christmas pieces, from a Macy's elf stint to a feral family newsletter. Sedaris at his sharpest and most sentimental.
2,410-word summary · 11 min read
High Five
Stephanie hunts missing Fred with Ranger's help while Morelli sulks and Grandma shops for funerals and husbands.
2,228-word summary · 10 min read
Cabin Fever
Greg Heffley gets snowed in with his family before Christmas while dodging blame for school property damage.
2,221-word summary · 10 min read
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Tom Felton looks back on ten years as Draco Malfoy, from schoolboy auditions to fame, music, and getting sober.
2,267-word summary · 10 min read
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson journals boys, friends, parents, and Angus the cat in a frank, funny first year of teen chaos.
2,005-word summary · 9 min read
Adulthood Is a Myth
Andersen's debut Sarah's Scribbles collection jokes about staying in, bad bras, awkward dating, and the strange comfort of pajamas.
2,424-word summary · 11 min read
This Is Not About Us
Sisters Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein feud over apple cake in linked stories spanning divorces, bat mitzvahs and three generations of family life.
2,064-word summary · 9 min read