Literary Fiction Book Summaries

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• The Book Thief summary

  by Markus Zusak

  Words, loss and courage in Nazi Germany, narrated by Death.

• A Tale for the Time Being summary

  by Ruth Ozeki

  A diary washed ashore connects two women across the Pacific.

• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame summary

  by Victor Hugo

  Hugo's dark, sweeping classic of medieval Paris.

• Circe summary

  by Madeline Miller

  Greek myth retold through the eyes of a misunderstood witch.

• Around the World in Eighty Days summary

  by Jules Verne

  The original race-against-the-clock adventure.