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Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Book Summary

Look Back in Anger deconstructed not just the traditional notions of sexuality, but also the notion of domestic life, exposing its vitriolic undercurrent. Osborne through Jimmy Porter represented the “angry young man” era in post-war Britain and their disillusionment.

JOHN OSBORNE

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Night

Elie Wiesel

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

Culture

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Book Summary

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a timeless classic. It is set in the early 19th century England - and deals with “pride” and “prejudice”, two typical humanist conceptions of character. Austen through the Bennet family takes us on a roller-coaster ride of love, marriage and the social standards.

Wade Warren

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book Summary

Jenny Wilson

Edith Wharton first released her book The Age of Innocence in 1920. The late nineteenth-century upper-class New York society is shown in this piece.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat Book Summary

Jenny Wilson

Have you heard about Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’, the famous cooking reference book that was a big hit in the culinary world? It became New York Times Bestseller in 2017.

Riders to the Sea

J.M. Synge

Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

A Mid Summer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

Fiction

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Babel by R.F. Kuang Book Summary

Babel, written by R.F. Kuang, is an intriguing and thought-provoking work. It expertly blends historical details with magical elements and the esoteric world of academic black magic.

R.F. Kuang

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Book Summary

MARY ANN SHAFFER

The novel - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer showcases the post-World War II conditions.

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All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks Book Summary

Jenny Wilson

Bell Hooks in her book All About Love: New Visions explores what love is and what it isn’t. Her take on love challenges our beliefs about what love looks and feels like.

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

Come as You Are

Emily Nagoski

Hooked

Emily McIntire

City of Bones

Cassandra Clare

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

Verity

Colleen Hoover

Fiction

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Book Summary

The story starts with a huntress named Feyre. The young girl is the sole breadwinner of her family. One day, she was stalking a deer in order to feed her starving family. While stalking, Feyre soon found herself hunting near the wood.

Esther Howard

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Looking for Alaska

John Green

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Clear Light Of Day

Anita Desai

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