Call Me by Your Name
One summer on the Italian Riviera: seventeen-year-old Elio and grad student Oliver circle each other through swims, talks, and missed chances.
2,627-word summary · 12 min read
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Atonement
A thirteen year old misreads two lovers at a country house in 1935, and her false claim follows all three through war.
2,743-word summary · 12 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
Yellowface
Struggling writer June steals her dead friend Athena's manuscript and publishes it as Juniper Song.
2,081-word summary · 9 min read
The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Congo in 1959, and Africa remakes each of them.
2,227-word summary · 10 min read
Norwegian Wood
Toru recalls 1969 Tokyo, torn between fragile Naoko and lively Midori after a friend's suicide.
2,051-word summary · 9 min read
Never Let Me Go
Kathy looks back on Hailsham, the English school where she and her friends were raised for an unspoken purpose.
2,102-word summary · 9 min read
Middlesex
Cal Stephanides traces three generations from Greece to Detroit to explain being intersex and becoming himself.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A maid in Vermeer's Delft household is drawn into the painter's world and into his most famous canvas.
1,973-word summary · 9 min read
A Little Life
Four friends in New York orbit Jude, whose hidden past of abuse shapes every page of this 720-page epic.
1,972-word summary · 9 min read
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Childhood friends Sam Masur and Sadie Green build hit games from Ichigo to Mapletown while love, disability, and work strain a thirty year bond through fame…
2,464-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