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1984
Winston Smith rewrites yesterday's newspapers for a Party that watches everyone, until he buys a notebook and starts a diary.
A Christmas Carol
On Christmas Eve a miser is visited by his dead partner and three Spirits, and has one night to change where his life is heading.
A Court of Mist and Fury
Feyre is free of Amarantha but not of the nightmares, and a bargain with the High Lord of the Night Court pulls her out of a gilded cage and into a city of stars, a found family and a coming war.
A Court of Silver Flames
Nesta Archeron, grieving and angry after the war, is sent to train with Cassian and work in the library beneath the House of Wind, and slowly finds friends, strength and love.
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A starving huntress kills a wolf, and a faerie lord comes to collect: her life, in his court, forever.
A Doll's House
Nora Helmer's secret debt comes due over one Christmas in her husband's sitting room, in R. Farquharson Sharp's translation of Ibsen's play.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
A schoolgirl turns her class project into an investigation of a five year old murder, and the boy everyone blamed for it.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four lovers flee into a forest ruled by quarrelling fairies, where a love flower and one wrong guess turn everyone's feelings upside down.
A Parade of Horribles
Carl and Donut race a food truck through seven deadly heats on the tenth floor, then face a parade of masked horribles and the dungeon's final boss on the eleventh.
A Tale of Two Cities
Three books, forty-five chapters and one golden thread: a chapter-by-chapter summary with our own counts of the key phrases.
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson sets out to walk the Appalachian Trail with an out-of-shape old friend, Stephen Katz, in a funny non-fiction memoir with trail history mixed in.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A boy fakes his own death and rafts down the Mississippi with Jim, a man who has run away to avoid being sold, in the 1880s novel that Percival Everett's James retells.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A bored girl follows a White Rabbit down a hole, shrinks and grows twelve times, and ends up defying a deck of cards.
All Her Fault
A mother goes to collect her four-year-old from a playdate and finds a stranger at the door: the address was fake, and so was the nanny who took him.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A man stands on a bridge with a rope around his neck, and the last thing he imagines is his escape.
Animal Farm
The animals of Manor Farm drive out their drunk owner and build a society of equals, until the pigs start bending the rules.
Anna Karenina
A married woman leaves her home for Count Vronsky, while the landowner Levin marries Kitty and searches for a way to live: two stories, one name on the cover.
Anne of Green Gables
A boy was ordered for a Prince Edward Island farm, and an eleven year old orphan with red braids arrived instead.
Atomic Habits
Tiny changes, remarkable results: the four laws of building good habits and breaking bad ones.
Band of Brothers
One company of American paratroopers, from training in Georgia to D-Day, Bastogne and Hitler's Eagle's Nest, told in the men's own words.
Beowulf
A warrior kills Grendel and Grendel's mother in Denmark, then rules at home for fifty years and dies killing a dragon, in J. Lesslie Hall's verse translation.
Black AF History
American history retold with Black Americans at the center, and told like a stand-up set: angry, funny and full of stories school skipped.
Born a Crime
Under apartheid, his parents' relationship was illegal. Trevor Noah's very existence was a crime.
Broken Country
Dorset, 1968: a grieving farmer's wife, the first love who moves back up the road, and a murder trial at the Old Bailey.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
A grieving Scottish student at Harvard wakes up changed after one night with a girl named Lottie, and is drawn into a story of vampires that runs from sixteenth century Spain to the present.
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Carl and his cat Donut pick a race and a class on floor three, then take on a ruined circus, a murder quest and a blast that the show's owners do not want them to survive.
Children of Blood and Bone
A diviner girl, a runaway princess and a prince on the hunt race to bring magic back to Orisha before a once-in-a-century solstice.
Crime and Punishment
A penniless student decides that a few extraordinary people may step over the law, and the next two weeks of the novel put his theory on trial.
Die With Zero
Nine rules for turning your money into memories while you can still enjoy them, instead of dying with a pile you never spent.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A bounty hunter hunts escaped androids to buy a real goat, in a world where a borrowed religion and a mood dial decide how everyone feels.
Don Quixote
A gentleman who thinks he is a knight rides out three times: every famous adventure scored by what he thinks it is, what it is and what it costs him.
Don't Believe Everything You Think
A short, viral self-help book arguing that pain is unavoidable but suffering comes from thinking about your thoughts.
Dracula
A young English solicitor visits a Transylvanian castle on business, and slowly notices there are no servants and the doors will not open.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
The end of the world is a game show, and the hero is a man in boxer shorts.
East of Eden
Two families in California's Salinas Valley, Cain and Abel retold twice, and one Hebrew word: timshel, thou mayest.
Emma
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, makes herself matchmaker to the village of Highbury, and her friends pay for it, in the Project Gutenberg text.
Every Summer After
Percy returns to a lake town in Ontario for a funeral and faces the neighbour she lost twelve years ago and the secret she never told.
Everything Is Tuberculosis
A curable disease still kills more than a million people a year, and John Green wants to know why.
Fire and Blood
A maester's chronicle of the Targaryen kings, from Aegon's Conquest to the boy king Aegon III, with the Dance of the Dragons at its heart.
Fish in a Tree
Ally has been to seven schools in seven years, and she's hidden the same secret at every one: she can't read.
Fourth Wing
A frail, bookish twenty-year-old is forced into a war college for dragon riders, where cadets die every week and the most dangerous wingleader wants her dead.
Frankenstein
A young scientist builds a living creature, takes one look at him, and runs away.
Great Expectations
Pip's rise from the forge to London, followed as a money ledger: who gave him what, when he learns the truth, and which ending the text prints.
Hamlet
A Danish prince, a ghost and a revenge that takes five acts, summarised act by act around the six questions students are asked.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Book 2 of 7: a house elf begs Harry not to return to Hogwarts, and by Halloween something nobody can see is turning students to stone.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Book 4 of 7: a legendary tournament comes to Hogwarts, and Harry's name comes out of the Goblet when he is far too young to enter.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Book 6 of 7: Dumbledore shows Harry the secrets of Voldemort's past, Draco Malfoy is hiding something, and an old Potions textbook belongs to the Half-Blood Prince.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Book 5 of 7: nobody believes Voldemort is back, the Ministry sends a teacher to Hogwarts to silence Harry, and a door in his dreams keeps getting closer.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Book 3 of 7: a murderer has escaped from the wizard prison, and everyone says he is coming for Harry.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
An orphan in a cupboard under the stairs learns he's a wizard, and that someone is after a stone hidden at Hogwarts.
Hatchet
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson spends fifty-four days alone in the Canadian woods with nothing but a hatchet his mother gave him.
Heart of Darkness
A short, dark river story summarised as three stops, with our own counts of dark, ivory, rivets and the horror by part.
Heated Rivalry
Two rival NHL stars, one from Montreal and one from Boston, spend nine years in a secret affair they both swear to end.
His & Hers
A BBC newsreader is sent to cover a murder in the village she fled, and the detective on the case is her ex husband, who was sleeping with the victim.
Holes
A boy with terrible luck is sent to a desert camp where every inmate digs one hole a day, and the warden is looking for something.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Thirty simple principles for being liked, persuading people and leading without causing resentment, from a classic of the 1930s.
I Will Find You
A man serving life for killing his three year old son sees a photograph of a boy with Matthew's birthmark, and breaks out of prison to find him.
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy's memoir of a childhood spent auditioning for a controlling mother, a hit sitcom and the long road to recovery after her mother's death.
Imperfect Women
Three friends who met at Oxford are shaken when one of them is found dead by the river, and the other two start to wonder what they missed.
Incidents Around the House
A little girl's imaginary friend keeps asking to come into her heart, and the haunting spreads from her closet to her whole family.
Into Thin Air
A journalist on a guided Everest climb in 1996 writes, hour by hour, what he saw when a storm hit the upper mountain, and what he believes went wrong.
James
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn retold by Jim, the enslaved man on the raft, who runs to save his family and hides a brilliant mind behind the voice white people expect.
Jane Eyre
An orphan becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with its master, until her wedding day reveals what the house has been hiding.
Julius Caesar
Rome's greatest man is stabbed in the middle of the play, and the rest belongs to the friend who did it, the friend who wept, and the dead man's ghost.
Les Miserables
A convict freed in 1815 after nineteen years for a loaf of bread rebuilds his life under new names while the police inspector Javert hunts him.
Lights Out
An ER nurse with a mask kink and the roommate-of-her-ex who secretly makes the videos she lusts after: a dark stalker rom-com where the home invasion was half invited.
Little House on the Prairie
One year in Kansas: the Ingalls family builds a log house on the prairie, meets wolves, fever, fire and their Osage neighbors, then has to leave.
Little Women
Four sisters name their wishes on a hill, and the rest of the book works out what each one gets and gives up.
Lord of the Flies
A plane full of schoolboys crashes on an empty island. No adults, one conch, one signal fire, and something in the dark.
Macbeth
A Scottish general is told by three witches that he will be king, and what he does to make it true sets off the deadliest chain of promises in Shakespeare.
Mansfield Park
Fanny Price, a poor girl raised among rich cousins at Mansfield Park, is told what to do by everyone and says no three times, in the Project Gutenberg text.
Meditations
The private notebook of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, twelve books of short Stoic reminders to himself, in Meric Casaubon's 1634 English translation from Project Gutenberg.
Moby-Dick
A whaling captain's hunt for one white whale, summarised by what the book is made of: story chapters, whale-lore chapters, a crew ledger and a three-day chase.
My Sister's Keeper
Thirteen year old Anna Fitzgerald sues her parents for control of her own body, because her sister Kate needs a kidney.
Neuromancer
A burned out hacker is repaired and leashed by a mystery boss, and drawn into a heist that frees an artificial intelligence from the family that built it.
None of This Is True
Podcaster Alix Summer records her birthday twin, Josie Fair, and slowly learns that the story on the tape is not the whole story.
Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland, seventeen and addicted to gothic novels, goes to Bath and then to the Tilney family's abbey, where she imagines a murder, in the Project Gutenberg text.
Oliver Twist
Oliver, born in a workhouse, is handed from the parish to an undertaker, a gang of London thieves, a kind old gentleman and a country household, in the Project Gutenberg text.
Onyx Storm
Violet Sorrengail sails to the far isles of the Continent to find a seventh breed of dragon, while the man she loves slowly turns into the enemy.
Othello
A general, a wife and the officer who ruins them: Othello summarised as Iago's ledger of every lie, nudge and trick, with act and scene numbers.
People We Meet on Vacation
Two opposite best friends take one summer trip a year, until a trip two summers ago ends the friendship. Now Poppy begs for one more, in a Palm Springs heat wave.
Persuasion
Anne Elliot, talked out of an engagement at nineteen, meets Captain Wentworth again eight years later, in the Project Gutenberg text.
Peter Pan
Three Darling children fly out of a London nursery window to Neverland, where Peter Pan, the lost boys and Captain Hook wait, in the Project Gutenberg text.
Practical Magic
Two orphaned sisters, a dead boyfriend buried under the lilacs, and two aunts who finally get on a bus.
Pride and Prejudice
Five sisters, one entailed house, and a proud rich man who calls Elizabeth Bennet merely tolerable.
Project Hail Mary
A schoolteacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory, and the Sun is dying.
Quicksilver
A desert thief, a pool of liquid silver, and a rude fae warrior who needs her help to win a war.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
A widowed night cleaner, a grumpy giant Pacific octopus, and a mystery about her son that only the octopus can solve.
Rich Dad Poor Dad
A boy in 1950s Hawaii gets two opposite money lessons from two father figures, and one of the best-known personal finance books ever was born.
Romeo and Juliet
Two teenagers from feuding families in Verona fall in love at a feast, marry in secret, and are dead within about five days of meeting.
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat's teaching cookbook explains good cooking through four elements, with Wendy MacNaughton's illustrations and recipes in the second half.
Sense and Sensibility
Two sisters lose their home and their money, one loves too loudly and one too quietly, and the quiet one keeps a four-year secret for fifteen chapters.
Sherlock Holmes
Sixty Holmes stories in nine books: the reading order, and our own story-by-story table for The Adventures and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Siddhartha
A Brahman's son leaves home to find the true self, and tries asceticism, wealth and love before a river and a ferryman answer him, in the Project Gutenberg text.
Slow Horses
MI5's failures are exiled to a shabby office called Slough House, until a kidnapping lands in their laps.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
A carnival arrives in Green Town three hours after midnight in late October, and two thirteen-year-old best friends are about to find out what it sells.
Sunrise on the Reaping
The fiftieth Hunger Games, forty-eight tributes, and a sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy reaped on his birthday.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The novel of the 1990 movie: four turtle brothers, a rat sensei, a reporter named April O'Neil, and the ninja gang called the Foot.
Tell Me Lies
Lucy Albright falls for charming Stephen DeMarco in college and spends four years believing the next version of him will be the real one.
The 48 Laws of Power
Forty-eight chapters, three thousand years of kings, generals and con men, and one question: how much of this would you actually do?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer schemes, falls for Becky Thatcher and sees a murder in the graveyard with Huck Finn, in the Project Gutenberg text of Mark Twain's 1876 novel.
The Alchemist
A young Andalusian shepherd sells his sheep and crosses a desert in search of a treasure he has dreamed about twice.
The Anxious Generation
A social psychologist argues that giving kids smartphones and taking away free play rewired childhood in the early twenty tens, and that parents and schools can undo it together.
The Art of War
Thirteen short chapters on planning, deception, speed, ground and spies, in Lionel Giles' 1910 translation with his notes from old Chinese commentators.
The Awakening
A married woman on a Gulf island resort begins to want a life of her own, and the novel follows where that wanting takes her.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Decades before Katniss, a proud, broke eighteen-year-old named Coriolanus Snow is assigned the girl from District Twelve.
The Body Keeps the Score
Trauma isn't only a memory: how it changes the brain and body, and what helps people heal.
The Boys in the Boat
Nine working class rowers from the University of Washington, a boat builder, and one Olympic final in Berlin in 1936, told through the life of Joe Rantz.
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers, a hated father and a murder in a Russian town, with a trial and a long argument about faith and guilt, in Constance Garnett's translation on Project Gutenberg.
The Butcher's Masquerade
Carl, Donut and Mongo spend the sixth floor hunted by paying aliens, until a high elf party for the top fifty crawlers turns into a trap.
The Calamity Club
Oxford, Mississippi, 1933: an orphan, a bookkeeper, and a house full of women who were never supposed to save anyone.
The Call of the Wild
A stolen California dog is sold north to the Klondike gold rush, finds the one man he loves, and finally answers the call of the wild.
The Cask of Amontillado
At carnival, Montresor leads a drunk friend down into his family catacombs with the promise of a rare wine, and walls him in.
The Correspondent
A retired Maryland court clerk, going blind, writes letters to everyone from her brother to her favorite authors, and the mail slowly reveals the life she never said aloud.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Betrayed on his wedding day in 1815, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen years in the Chateau d'If, then returns as a fabulously rich count to repay four men.
The Courage to Be Disliked
A philosopher and a young man argue over five nights about freedom, other people's approval and what Adler called the separation of tasks.
The Day the World Came to Town
On 9/11, 38 planes landed in a town of 10,000 people. Gander took in every single passenger.
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Book three of Dungeon Crawler Carl: on a fourth floor made of subway lines, Carl and Donut win a secret book, steal a steam train, and try to save crawlers trapped at the end of the line.
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Carl and Donut land in a replica of Cuba, build a deck of monster cards, take a job in a hidden guild, and face a memory of Carl's family before a demon prince arrives.
The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve
An ancient Christian legend of what happened after Eden: the Cave of Treasures, Satan in disguise, the first murder, and Seth's children on the holy mountain.
The Four Agreements
Be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, always do your best: four rules, one very short book.
The French Illusion
Two honeymooners vanish in Normandy, one family pays, and the other pays and still waits: Grisham's first spy thriller.
The Frozen River
Maine, 1789: a real midwife, a body in the ice, and a rape case against the town's own judge.
The Gate of the Feral Gods
Book four of Dungeon Crawler Carl: on a floor of sealed bubbles, Carl and Donut must take four castles, stop a gnome fortress from bombing a town, and decide what to do with a gate that frees a god's lost puppy.
The Gift of the Magi
On Christmas Eve, a young wife sells her hair to buy a chain for her husband's watch, and he sells the watch to buy combs for her hair.
The Giver
A twelve year old is chosen to hold the memories of a perfectly calm community, and discovers what the peace costs.
The God of the Woods
In August 1975 a thirteen-year-old girl vanishes from a summer camp on her family's Adirondack estate, fourteen years after her little brother disappeared from the same land.
The Great Gatsby
In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves next door to the mysterious Jay Gatsby, whose huge parties hide a single hope: Daisy Buchanan, across the bay.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Arthur Dent's house is demolished for a bypass, then the whole Earth is demolished for another one, and he hitches a ride into the stars with a towel and a friend from Betelgeuse.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes sends Dr. Watson to guard the heir of Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor, where a family legend about a giant hound seems to be coming true, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Forty-year-old caseworker Linus Baker is sent to an island for one month to report on six magical children and their master, Arthur Parnassus.
The House of the Spirits
Four generations of the Trueba family, a clairvoyant matriarch and a ruthless patriarch, in a South American country on the road to a military coup.
The Hunger Games
Twenty-four kids go into the arena on live TV. One comes out. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to save her sister.
The Iliad
The anger of Achilles at Troy, from a plague and a stolen prize to Hector's funeral, in Samuel Butler's free prose translation.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
A young Black mother's cells, taken without her knowledge in 1951, became the first immortal human cell line and changed medicine, while her family was never told.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Two gentlemen invent a brother and an invalid to escape their duties, and a lost handbag turns the lies into the truth.
The Jungle
Jurgis Rudkus and his Lithuanian family pay for a house, a wedding and every winter in the Chicago stockyards, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Jungle Book
Seven stories, not one: three about Mowgli raised by wolves, then a white seal, a mongoose, an elephant boy and army animals, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Knight and the Moth
Sybil is a Diviner who has never seen her own eyes. When her sisters begin to vanish, she leaves the cathedral that raised her, with a talkative gargoyle and a very rude knight.
The Leaf Thief
Squirrel's leaves are disappearing. There must be a leaf thief on the loose!
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A nervous schoolmaster, a rich farmer's daughter, a prankster rival and a headless horseman in a Dutch valley on the Hudson, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Let Them Theory
Two words for other people (Let Them) and two for yourself (Let Me), applied to stress, friendship, family and love.
The Long Walk
One hundred teenage boys must keep walking at four miles an hour, and the last one alive wins the Prize.
The Love Hypothesis
A PhD student kisses a stranger to win an argument. He turns out to be the scariest professor on campus.
The Magician's Nephew
Two London children touch a magician's rings, wake the queen of a dead world and watch a lion sing the land of Narnia into being.
The Martian
An astronaut is left for dead on Mars with a habitat built for a month and has to science his way through everything.
The Masque of the Red Death
A prince seals a thousand friends in an abbey to escape the Red Death, and holds a masked ball in seven colored rooms with a black clock at the end.
The Metamorphosis
A salesman wakes as a giant vermin, and the story follows one door: locked from inside, locked from outside, then left open.
The Midnight Library
On the night she decides to die, Nora Seed finds a library between life and death where every book is a life she could have lived.
The Monkey's Paw
A family gets a dried paw that grants three wishes, and the first wish comes with a price.
The Mountain Is You
A gentle, exercise-filled guide that treats self-sabotage as a habit with a purpose, and walks you through finding and meeting the need behind it.
The Odyssey
After the Trojan War, Ulysses takes twenty years to reach home while his son and wife hold off 108 suitors, in Samuel Butler's free prose translation.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A beautiful young man wishes his portrait would age in his place, and it does, one secret at a time.
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle's guide to dropping compulsive thinking and living in the present moment, written mostly as questions and answers.
The Psychology of Money
Twenty short stories argue that doing well with money depends less on how smart you are and more on how you behave.
The Raven
On a December midnight, a grieving man opens his door to a Raven that answers every question with one word: Nevermore.
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne is made to wear a scarlet A in Puritan Boston while her daughter grows up and a hidden husband hunts the minister, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox, an unloved girl sent from India to her uncle's Yorkshire house, finds a locked garden, a robin, a boy who charms animals and a cousin nobody mentions, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A reclusive Hollywood legend picks an unknown reporter to hear the truth about her seven marriages, and what she was really protecting.
The Silent Patient
A painter shoots her husband five times in the face, then never speaks again. A therapist is determined to find out why.
The Song of Achilles
The Trojan War, told by Patroclus: an exiled prince, the golden son of a goddess, and a love story you know will end in tragedy.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A short mystery told through documents and witnesses, summarised chapter by chapter with a board of who knew what and when.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A London lawyer investigates why his friend Dr. Jekyll has made a violent stranger named Hyde his heir, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Sun Also Rises
An American newspaper man in Paris loves a woman he cannot have, and follows her and their friends to a bullfighting fiesta in Spain.
The Tell-Tale Heart
A nervous narrator insists he is sane, then tells you how he killed an old man because of his pale blue eye, and what he heard afterwards.
The Testaments
Fifteen years after The Handmaid's Tale, three narrators, one of them the most feared woman in Gilead, race to bring the regime down.
The Time Machine
A Victorian inventor rides his machine to the year 802,701, loses it, and tries three different theories about what became of humanity, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
A tiny egg, a very hungry caterpillar, one week of snacks and a stomachache, and a butterfly at the end.
The War of the Worlds
Cylinders from Mars land near Woking, and a nameless narrator survives the tripod machines, the Heat-Ray and the Black Smoke, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Wedding People
A Victorian literature professor checks into a grand Newport hotel to end her life, and is pulled into the six day wedding happening around her.
The Wild Robot
A robot washes up on a wild island, learns from the animals, and becomes a mother to an orphaned gosling.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy is blown from Kansas to the Land of Oz by a cyclone and follows the yellow brick road with a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman and a Lion, in the Project Gutenberg text.
The Yellow Wallpaper
A woman told to rest and not to write keeps a secret journal about the wallpaper in her room, and something starts to move behind the pattern.
Theo of Golden
An eighty-six-year-old stranger quietly gives away portraits in a small southern town.
Things We Never Got Over
A runaway bride goes to rescue her estranged twin sister, and ends up in a Virginia town with an eleven-year-old niece she never knew about and a very grumpy neighbor.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
A Nobel laureate explains the two systems of the mind, one fast and intuitive, one slow and careful, and why the fast one makes predictable mistakes.
This Inevitable Ruin
Carl and Donut lead the Princess Posse through Faction Wars on the ninth floor, a war for the city of Larracos that costs them dearly.
Treasure Island
A boy named Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest and sails for the island with the doctor, the squire and a ship's cook named Long John Silver, in the Project Gutenberg text.
Tuesdays with Morrie
A busy sportswriter spends fourteen Tuesdays with his dying old professor, and learns what he forgot to ask.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Three journeys out of Kentucky, mapped chapter by chapter: Eliza's flight north, George Harris's escape and Tom's sale down the river.
Unreasonable Hospitality
How Eleven Madison Park became the best restaurant in the world by going beyond what's reasonable.
Verity
A broke writer moves into a stranger's Vermont mansion to finish a famous author's series, and finds the author's hidden autobiography.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau's account of two years and two months living in a house he built himself at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts: eighteen chapters of cost accounting, nature writing and arguments about how to live.
War and Peace
Three families, Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and a long argument about history, in the Maude translation (Project Gutenberg #2600).
Warriors: Into the Wild
A pampered house cat jumps the garden fence and is offered a place in a wild forest Clan, where hunger, rivals and an old prophecy are waiting.
Whalefall
A seventeen year old dives alone off Monastery Beach to recover his dead father's bones, and a sperm whale swallows him.
When the Moon Hatched
An assassin who passes as a null hunts the man who killed her friend, and is rescued from a dragon's jaws by a king who says she is someone he lost.
Wild Dark Shore
A sinking island near Antarctica, a seed vault, a grieving family, and a stranger washed up in a storm.
Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1
A dressmaker's daughter who loves magic casts a forbidden spell by accident, and becomes a witch's apprentice to undo it.
Wuthering Heights
A rich tenant stumbles into a storm-lashed Yorkshire farmhouse and hears the story of Heathcliff, Catherine and two families destroyed by love and revenge.
Yesteryear
A tradwife influencer with five million followers wakes up in 1855, on her own farm, with children she doesn't recognize.
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