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PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book.    Summary of The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters | Includes Analysis    Inside this Instaread: • Summary of entire book • Introduction to the important people...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch and NOT the original book. Preview The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is a coming-of-age novel that follows Theodore Decker, 13, in the wake of his traumatic experience in a deadly terrorist attack on the Metropolitan Museum...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Stephanie Danler’s Sweetbitter and NOT the original book. Preview: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler is a coming-of-age story set in New York City. Over the course of a year, 22-year-old Tess, a girl straight out of small-town middle America, arrives...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man and NOT the original book. Preview: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a dating advice book by comedian and radio personality Steve Harvey. As a man, Harvey has insight into how men think and what...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Emily Giffin’s First Comes Love and NOT the original book. Preview: First Comes Love by Emily Giffin is a novel told from the alternating perspectives of two sisters, Josie and Meredith, who are still struggling with the tragic death of Daniel,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to to Jojo Moyes’s After You and NOT the original book. Preview: After You, by Jojo Moyes, is the sequel to the 2009 bestseller Me Before You. It follows Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark’s struggle with grief after the death of the remarkable man who taught...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and NOT the original book. Preview: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes:...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before the War and NOT the original book. Preview: The Summer Before the War is a novel that follows the inhabitants of a small English town through the onset of World War I. Its protagonist, Beatrice Nash, is a young...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth and NOT the original book. Preview: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett is a story of two families that unfolds over the course of 50 years. At the center of the novel is a traumatic loss that profoundly affects each family...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and NOT the original book. Preview: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a work of speculative fiction that follows a runaway slave, Cora, on a grisly tour through the American South. Conveyed...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jacqueline Winspear’s Journey to Munich and NOT the original book. Preview: Journey to Munich is the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series. Set in 1938, the novel tells the story of private agent Maisie Dobbs’s dangerous...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Annie Proulx’s Barkskins and NOT the original book. Preview: Barkskins by Annie Proulx is a novel about settler colonialism in North America and the eradication of the boreal forest and its native inhabitants. The novel spans 300 years tracing...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl and NOT the original book. Preview: Vinegar Girl, a novel by Anne Tyler, is a loose retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Set in modern-day Baltimore, it follows twenty-somethings Kate and Pyotr...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book.  What If? by Randall Munroe - A 30-minute Instaread Summary Inside this Instaread Summary:  Overview of the entire book  Introduction to the important people in the book  Summary and...