Do You Remember? (2022) is a psychological thriller by best-selling author Freida McFadden. As a practicing physician specializing in brain injuries, McFadden is intensely private about her identity and uses a pen name, given that she writes stories about people with brain injuries whom friends and family manipulate or kill. Tess Strebel Thurman, the protagonist of Do You Remember?, is exploited in this way after a car accident leads to a brain cancer diagnosis. The... Read Do You Remember? Summary

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, published by Random House in 1992, is the second novel in the highly successful romance series, Outlander. Continuing the story of Claire Randall Fraser and Jamie Fraser, this novel returns the reader to 1744, as Claire and Jamie travel to France to escape the tyrannical forces led by Jack Randall, an ancestor of Claire’s first husband, Frank. The novel not only highlights the unlikely romance between a modern woman... Read Dragonfly in Amber Summary

Published in 2017, Drive by Kate Stewart is a contemporary rockstar romance novel and the first installment in the Bittersweet Symphony duet. Stewart is a best-selling author known for her emotionally charged novels. The story follows music journalist Stella Emerson, who, after a personal crisis, takes a cross-country road trip guided by a playlist from her past. The music takes her back to a formative period in her life and the passionate love triangle that... Read Drive Summary

Rita Dove is one of the most preeminent living poets in the United States. She was the United States Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and the Virginia Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2006. She is the only poet ever to receive both the National Humanities Medal (awarded in 1996 by President Bill Clinton) and the National Medal of Arts (awarded in 2011 by President Barack Obama). She has published 11 books of poetry as... Read Dusting Summary

Earthlings (2018) is a psychological horror novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. Murata is the author of the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman (2016), which received Japan’s Akutagawa Prize. Her work often explores nonconformity and social alienation, drawing from her own childhood feeling of being an outsider, performing “normalcy.” Earthlings was a national bestseller and was named a Best Book of the Year by publications including the New York Times and Time Magazine. The novel... Read Earthlings Summary

Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961) is the only novel by Louis Chu, a Chinese American immigrant who was active in New York’s Chinatown community in the mid-20th century. The novel follows two Chinese immigrants, Wah Gay and Lee Gong, as they navigate the engagement and marriage of their children. When Wah Gay’s son Ben Loy is revealed to be impotent, his new wife, Mei Oi, the daughter of Lee Gong, has an affair, sending... Read Eat a Bowl of Tea Summary

Eat Pray Love is a 2006 memoir by writer Elizabeth Gilbert whose previous works include the novels Stern Men and The Last American Man. The book’s subtitle is One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, and it chronicles Gilbert’s quest for mental and spiritual healing following a divorce, difficult legal settlement, unhealthy love affair, and period of depression. This guide references the 2016 Penguin Random House edition.SummaryThe author searches for “I” in... Read Eat Pray Love Summary

“Edge” is a lyric poem by American poet Sylvia Plath. The poem, dated February 5, 1963, is the last piece Plath wrote before she died by suicide on February 11, 1963. Plath married the English poet Ted Hughes, and their contentious relationship has become a public literary drama, with many people portraying Hughes as a toxic husband who took Plath over the proverbial edge. Plath had a history of mental health disorders, and she attempted... Read Edge Summary

Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love is a self-help text by John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams, and Rachel Carlton Abrams. Published in 2019, the book presents a research-based framework for building lasting romantic relationships through structured conversations. Drawing from four decades of relationship research at the Gottman Love Lab, the authors argue that relationship success emerges from how couples communicate and navigate differences together. The book targets both new couples... Read Eight Dates Summary

Eight Hundred Grapes is a standalone romance novel written by New York Times best-selling author Laura Dave. It was originally published by Simon and Schuster in 2015 and was named a “Best Book of the Summer” by Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, and Us Weekly. Formerly a freelance journalist for ESPN, Dave is currently a full-time author who specializes in romance fiction, drama, and mystery. She has six published titles, three of which have... Read Eight Hundred Grapes Summary

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales (2025) is the third novel in Heather Fawcett’s cozy fantasy romance series. The Emily Wilde books track the adventures and perils of Cambridge folklorist Emily as she is drawn deeper into the magical realms of Faerie, the subject of her study. In the third book, Emily finally arrives in the fascinating but dangerous realm of Silva Lupi to help take back the throne for her fiancé, Wendell Bambleby, the... Read Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales Summary

Emma is a fiction novel published in 1815 by the English author Jane Austen. The book centers on the character development of its eponymous protagonist, a genteel young woman on a country estate who meddles in the love lives of friends and neighbors. Jane Austen was conscious that Emma’s snobbery, vanity, and meddling might make her a “heroine whom no one but myself will much like” (Austen-Leigh, James Edward. A Memoir of Jane Austen. London:... Read Emma Summary

Empire of Wild is a novel by the Métis novelist Cherie Dimaline, and it was published in 2019. The novel follows a Métis woman as she embarks on a quest to find her missing husband and incorporates elements of horror and magical realism. The novel draws on Indigenous mythology—particularly the legend of the rogarou—and explores the impact of Christianity, government exploitation, and colonialism on Indigenous people in Canada. Other works by this author include The... Read Empire of Wild Summary

Erec and Enide is a book-length poem written by French poet Chrétien de Troyes around the year 1170. The poem is one of Chrétien’s series of so-called Arthurian romances—a genre of poem in the Middle Ages that told the stories of the individuals associated with King Arthur’s court. His poems are among the earliest to refer to King Arthur and his knights, and Erec and Enide focuses on the adventures of the knight Erec. This... Read Erec and Enide Summary

Everybody’s Fool is a 2016 novel by American Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Russo. The second in Russo’s North Bath trilogy, Everybody’s Fool is set in the small, eccentric, and troubled town of North Bath, New York. The tragicomic novel follows a group of characters whose dramas unfold over a single Memorial Day Weekend, exploring how individuals react to and rebel against their emotional and moral ties to their communities. The novel also grapples with existential themes... Read Everybody's Fool Summary

Every Last Secret is a psychological thriller by author A. R. Torre. It tells the story of two married couples, Matt and Neena Ryder, and Catherine (“Cat”) and William Winthorpe. The couples are next-door neighbors and are further connected because Neena works for William. Neena is infatuated with William and, hoping either to replace Cat or to blackmail him, lures him into an affair. However, Cat discovers Neena’s plot and orchestrates a revenge plot of... Read Every Last Secret Summary

Jo Piazza’s 2025 thriller, Everyone Is Lying to You, depicts the deceptive world of social media influencing. The novel follows Lizzie Matthews, a journalist who is unexpectedly contacted by her estranged college friend, Rebecca “Bex” Sommers. Now a famous “tradwife” influencer, Rebecca offers Lizzie an exclusive profile of a secret new business venture. When Rebecca vanishes, and her husband is found brutally murdered at their ranch, Lizzie is drawn into a dark mystery of curated... Read Everyone Is Lying to You Summary

Everything Sad is Untrue is an autobiographical novel published in 2020 that is both “fiction and nonfiction,” according to its author, Daniel Nayeri (354). Nayeri, his mother, and his sister sought refuge in the United States when he was eight years old, having fled from Iran. Daniel, the book’s narrator and author, weaves story after story for his reader, playing the role of Scheherazade before the king as if he was in 1,001 Nights and... Read Everything Sad Is Untrue Summary

Evidence of the Affair (2018) is a novella by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It follows an epistolary format, which means that the story is told through letters. Set in the late 1970s, it follows Carrie Allsop, a homemaker who discovers that her husband, Ken, is having an affair with a married woman named Janet. Carrie writes to Janet’s husband, David, revealing the infidelity. Gradually, the tone of Carrie and David’s letters shifts from the guarded communication... Read Evidence of the Affair Summary

The bestselling contemporary romance Evvie Drake Starts Over is the first novel by the noted American radio journalist and podcaster Linda Holmes. Originally published by Random House in 2019, the Bantam books paperback of 2020 is summarized here. Holmes’s novel was selected in July of 2019 for Jenna Bush’s book club, Read With Jenna, by which time it was already on the New York Times bestseller list. The novel follows the stories of two wounded... Read Evvie Drake Starts Over Summary