Book Brief Library

Get inspired and find your next read with SuperSummary's growing library of bite-sized Book Briefs. Designed for easy browsing and discovery, each Book Brief provides a short, spoiler-free summary plus an at-a-glance snapshot of a book's mood, reviews and reception, reader profile, and other details to help you decide if a title is right for you. Explore Book Briefs alphabetically or by genre.

Looking for more comprehensive resources? Find chapter-by-chapter summaries and analyses on over 8,600 titles in our Study Guide Library, plus quick-read synopses of thousands of additional works in our Plot Summary Library

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ#
Wooden On Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
John Wooden

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
Arthur S. Link

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

Woodsong
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Wool
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Word Nerd
Susin Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Words By Heart
Ouida Sebestyen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy
Andrew B. Newberg, Mark Robert Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Words in Deep Blue
Cath Crowley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Words in the Dust
Trent Reedy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Amanda Montell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Words on Bathroom Walls
Julia Walton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Words on Fire
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Words That Bind
Ash Krafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence
Shelle Rose Charvet

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras
Adrienne Pine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Judy Melinek, T.J. Mitchell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Working with Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Adom Getachew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

World of Trouble (The Last Policeman, #3)
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Worlds Collide (The Land of Stories, #6)
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Worldshaker (Worldshaker, #1)
Richard Harland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

World Without End
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

World Without Fish
Mark Kurlansky

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Worst Case
Michael Ledwidge, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Worth
A. LaFaye

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Worth Any Price (Bow Street Runners, #3)
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Worth the Fight
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Worthy Opponents
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Would Like to Meet
Rachel Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Woven by Gold
Elizabeth Helen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Woyzeck
Georg Büchner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1837

Wrapped in Rain
Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Wrath
John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wrecked
Maria Padian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Wrecking Ball
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Published in 2019

Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex
Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1821

Wreck the Halls: A Novel
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wretched:
Emily McIntire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Wringer
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Wrinkles
Charles Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Writers and Lovers
Lily King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Writing My Wrongs
Shaka Senghor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Writing New York
Phillip Lopate

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1974

Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Writing to Save a Life
John Edgar Wideman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing
John Trimble

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Sally Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Written in Bone (David Hunter, #2)
Simon Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Written in Red
Anne Bishop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Written in the Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)
Alexandria Bellefleur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Written On The Body
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Wrong
Jana Aston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Wrong Place Wrong Time
Gillian McAllister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
G.A. Henty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1894

Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

WWW: Wake
Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Wytches, Volume 1
Scott Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014