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Summary of Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | Includes Analysis   Preview: Jean Louise Finch tries to go home again and finds tiny Maycomb, Alabama grappling with the emerging civil rights movement in the mid-1950s. Set nearly twenty years after the events in To Kill a Mockingbird,...

Summary of The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a coming-of-age novel narrated by 14-year-old Lily Owens, a young white teen who runs away from home. In equal parts fleeing her abusive father and pursuing...

Summary of Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty | Includes Analysis     Preview:   Truly Madly Guilty, a novel by Liane Moriarty, flashes back and forth in time between the afternoon of a traumatic barbecue and its aftermath. The story, which unfolds in Sydney,...

Summary of The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende | Includes Analysis Preview: The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende is a novel that chronicles a forbidden but passionate romance that grows between two people over time, and how this relationship touches the lives of others over the course...

Summary of Written In My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon | Includes Analysis   Preview: Written in My Own Heart’s Blood is the love story of time-travelers Claire and Jamie Fraser, as well as the people whose lives they touch. It takes place in the United States in 1778...

Summary of The Bourbon Kings by J.R. Ward | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Bourbon Kings sets up a rip-roaring family saga that twists and turns through money, murder, a myriad of affairs, and more. So much more, in fact, that two sequels are planned to sort it...

With Instaread Summaries, you can get the summary of a book in 30 minutes or less. We read every chapter, summarize and analyze it for your convenience.  This is an Instaread Summary of Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James. Below is a preview of the earlier sections of the summary:...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book.   Summary of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami | Includes Analysis   Inside this Instaread Summary: -Overview of the entire book -Introduction...

Summary of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | Includes Analysis   Preview: Chapters 1-6 Nick and Amy Dunne have both lost their jobs. Nick’s mother is dying of cancer, so they move from New York to Missouri to help Nick’s sister, Go, care for her. Some time...

Summary of Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom | Includes Analysis   Preview: Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom is the sequel to the author’s debut novel, The Kitchen House (2010). Set in 1830, it is the story of 33-year-old James...

Summary of Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb | Includes Analysis   Preview: Set in 2060, Obsession in Death is a murder mystery by J.D. Robb that features homicide detective, Lieutenant Eve Dallas. This is the fortieth book in this futuristic crime series. Lieutenant...

Summary of Me Before You by JoJo Moyes | Includes Analysis   Preview: Chapter 1 Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark, a member of a working class family in a small English village, has just lost her job. Although both Lou’s father, Bernard, and her sister, Treena, work, neither...

Inside this Instaread Summary: -Overview of the entire book -Introduction to the important people in the book -Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book -Key Takeaways of the book -A Reader's Perspective   Preview of the earlier chapters:...

Summary of Night Broken by Patricia Briggs | Includes Analysis   Preview: Chapter One Mercy is washing the dishes after a family breakfast with her stepdaughter and a female member of the pack, Auriele, when the phone rings. Jesse answers the phone. Her mother, Christy,...