Plot Summary Library

Explore thousands of classic and contemporary titles in a quick-read format. SuperSummary Plot Summaries feature a full synopsis to guide you through key plot points. Browse titles alphabetically or by genre.

There’s more! Find comprehensive chapter-by-chapter summaries and in-depth analyses on over 10,000 more titles in our Study Guide Library.

All Titles Modern Fiction Classic Fiction Nonfiction Plays Essays Poetry Middle Grade/YA

Thank You For Being Late

Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

That Championship Season

Jason Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

That Deadman Dance

Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

That Evening Sun

William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

That Kind of Mother

Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

That Long Silence

Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

That Night

Chevy Stevens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

That Old Cape Magic

Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

That Used to Be Us

Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The 13th Valley

John M. Del Vecchio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The 17th Suspect

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The 19th Wife

David Ebershoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The #1 Dad Book

James Patterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The 1 Lawyer

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The 24th Hour

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Stephen R. Covey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The 9th Judgment

Maxine Paetro, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Accidental Asian

Eric Liu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Accidental Favorite

Fran Littlewood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Accident Season

Moira Fowley-Doyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Acharnians

Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 425

The Admirable Crichton

J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

The Affair

C. P. Snow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1958

The African Queen

C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The Afterlife

Donald Antrim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Age Of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Agony of Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Aguero Sisters: A Novel

Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Aleph and Other Stories

Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1949

The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Alex Crow

Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

The Almost Moon

Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Almost Nearly Perfect People

Michael Booth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Almost Sisters

Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

Leonard Shlain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Alternatives

Caoilinn Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Amateur

Robert Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Ambassadors

Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Amber Spyglass

Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The American

Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1877

The American Heiress

Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

The American Political Tradition

Richard Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

The American Promise

James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, Sarah Stage, Susan M. Hartmann

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation

Charles Howard Mcilwain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

The American Way of Death Revisited

Jessica Mitford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Anatomy of Wings

Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Ancestor's Tale

Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

The Angelic Year

Ambika Wauters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Anthropologists

Aysegül Savas

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2024

The Anti-Communist Manifesto

Jesse Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Anti-Politics Machine

James Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Anxiety of Influence

Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Apocalypse Now Book

Peter Cowie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Appeal

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Appointment

Herta Müller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language

Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Architect's Apprentice

Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Armies of the Night

Norman Mailer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Artist

Lucy Steeds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Artist of Disappearance

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Amanda Palmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Art of Being Normal

Lisa Williamson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Art of Choosing

Sheena Iyengar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Art of Deception

Stephanie Burgis

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

Lajos Egri

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1942

The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

Jim Rohn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Art of Fiction

John Gardner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Art of Keeping Cool

Janet Taylor Lisle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

Epictetus

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 124

The Art of Love

A.B. Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Art of Resistance

Justus Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Art of the Commonplace

Wendell Berry

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

The Art of the Personal Essay

Phillip Lopate

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

The Art of the Start

Guy Kawasaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Art of the Wasted Day

Patricia Hampl

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

Jeff Goins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Art Spy

Michelle Young

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

The Ash Garden

Dennis Bock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Ask and the Answer

Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Associate

Phillip Margolin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Association of Small Bombs

Karan Mahajan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing

M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Atlantis Plague

A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Attack

Kurt Schlichter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Tim Wu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

The Au Pair Affair

Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024