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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 1900

Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.

3,297-word summary · 15 min read

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.

2,989-word summary · 13 min read

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.

2,230-word summary · 10 min read

Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell · 2017

Ten years after Ellie vanished, her mother finds a link in a new family.

1,956-word summary · 9 min read

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe · 1958

Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries and courts remaking…

2,518-word summary · 11 min read

Things We Left Behind

Lucy Score · 2023

Lucian Rollins returns to Knockemout to bury his father's past and collides with librarian Sloane Walton.

2,777-word summary · 12 min read

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill · 1937

Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

2,458-word summary · 11 min read

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · 2011

Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.

2,306-word summary · 10 min read

Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher · 2007

Clay Jensen gets tapes from Hannah Baker naming thirteen reasons for her death, and must walk town listening through one long night.

2,278-word summary · 10 min read

This Is Going to Hurt

Adam Kay · 2017

Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.

2,869-word summary · 13 min read