9,806 summaries available
Page 45 of 409
by Jim Butcher
4.3(127,628)
A down-on-his-luck wizard, Harry Dresden, needing to escape a debt to his fae godmother, investigates a murder among the warring Summer and Winter Courts, where the fate of reality rests on his ability to navigate faerie politics.
by Dennis Lehane
4.2(127,579)
Twenty-five years after a traumatic childhood abduction, three men are violently reunited when the daughter of one is murdered, forcing a detective to investigate his own haunted past and the prime suspect—another childhood friend.
by David Grann
4.1(127,328)
In the 1920s, a series of murders targeting the oil-rich Osage Nation leads a new FBI to send an undercover team into a web of greed and conspiracy to find those behind a terrifying period of violence.
by John Grisham
3.8(127,324)
A young lawyer confronts his family's dark past and a ticking clock as he fights to save his Klansman grandfather from the gas chamber for a 1967 bombing.
by Randall Munroe
4.1(127,231)
This book explores the dangerous scientific realities behind absurd 'what if' questions, explained with humor and simple illustrations.
by Agatha Christie
4.1(127,217)
A luxurious Nile cruise turns deadly when the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is murdered, leaving Hercule Poirot to untangle jealousy and hidden motives under the Egyptian sun.
by Nora Roberts
4.1(127,192)
A wedding photographer, jaded by her own fractured family, finds unexpected romance with a stable high school teacher, forcing her to confront her past and embrace the possibility of her own happy ending amidst the chaos of planning perfect days for others.
by Sally Rooney
3.8(127,092)
In Dublin, a sharp but emotionally guarded college student watches her intellectual life unravel as she navigates an unexpected affair with an older, married actor, challenging her beliefs about love, class, and vulnerability.
by Crockett Johnson
4.3(126,975)
With a single purple crayon, a young boy sketches an entire world of adventure, showing how imagination helps with life's unexpected turns.
by Stephen King
4.2(126,897)
In a secret facility, children with psychic powers are harvested, forcing a defiant boy to escape his captors before his unique ability is weaponized.
by Brandon Sanderson
4.6(126,896)
As an apocalyptic storm awakens enslaved parshmen to their justified rage, Dalinar Kholin must unite a fractured world against a vengeful foe by confronting his own bloody past, even as ancient secrets and rediscovered powers emerge from the depths of Urithiru.
by Gabriel García Márquez
4.0(126,849)
In a small Colombian town, the collective memory of an honor killing unravels, revealing not who committed the murder, but why an entire community allowed it to happen despite knowing the victim's fate.
by Richard Bachman
4.1(126,786)
In a future dystopia, one hundred teenage boys begin a march where the only prize for survival is life, and the cost of failure is death.
by Ken Follett
4.3(126,607)
As the Third Reich rises and World War II begins, five families from America, Germany, Russia, England, and Wales navigate battlefields, politics, and personal sacrifices that define a generation caught between fascism, communism, and the atomic age.
by Mark Cotta Vaz
4.3(126,379)
Explore the making of 'New Moon' with interviews, stories, and stunning full-color images that bring Stephenie Meyer's world to the screen.
by Stephen King
3.9(126,365)
Accused of murdering her employer, a sharp-tongued island woman reveals a lifetime of secrets, including the truth behind her abusive husband's death and her complex bond with the manipulative heiress she served.
by Robert Jordan
4.0(126,307)
As the Shadow's grip tightens, Rand al'Thor must master an ancient, forbidden power and rally a fractured world against the encroaching darkness, even as betrayal lurks within his closest allies.
by Marilynne Robinson
3.9(126,182)
An aging Iowa pastor writes a letter to his young son, sharing his family's abolitionist history, his faith, and the quiet moments of an ordinary life.
by Carol Rifka Brunt
4.0(126,179)
In 1987, a fourteen-year-old girl, grieving her artist uncle's death, connects with his secret partner, uncovering family truths and finding a path to healing.
by Sam McBratney
4.4(126,119)
A little hare tries to measure his love for his father, who always shows his own love is even bigger, stretching beyond the moon and back.
by Anne McCaffrey
4.1(126,096)
A telepathically linked dragon queen and her young, underestimated rider must awaken old powers and unite a broken world against a deadly, world-devouring alien threat.
by Ruth Ware
3.9(125,975)
A nanny's job in a Scottish mansion turns into a nightmare of surveillance, sinister children, and malfunctioning smart home technology, ending in a child's death and her wrongful imprisonment.
by Raymond Chandler
4.0(125,889)
In Los Angeles, detective Philip Marlowe navigates a world of dangerous women and deadly secrets, uncovering blackmail and murder to find that some truths are best left buried.
by James Clear
4.3(125,755)
Achieve remarkable results by mastering small, incremental "atomic" habits that build powerful systems for personal change.