logo

Plot Summary Library

Explore thousands of classic and contemporary titles in a quick-read format. SuperSummary Plot Summaries feature a full synopsis to guide you through key plot points. Browse titles alphabetically or by genre.

There’s more! Find comprehensive chapter-by-chapter summaries and in-depth analyses on thousand more titles in our Study Guide Library

ALPHABETICAL

GENRES

All TitlesModern FictionClassic FictionNonfictionPlaysEssaysPoetryMiddle Grade/YA
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

One For The Money
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One Good Dog
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Good Turn
Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

One Minute to Midnight
Nico Rosso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

One Thousand White Women
Jim Fergus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One-Way
Didier Van Cauwelaert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Only Daughter
Anna Snoekstra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

On the Water
H.M. van den Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002

Operation Shylock: A Confession
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Orhan's Inheritance
Aline Ohanesian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Our Daily Bread
Lauren B. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Our Twisted Hero
Yi Mun-Yol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Outerbridge Reach
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Out of the Night that Covers Me
Pat Cunningham Devoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Paris Trout
Pete Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Patriot Games
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Pavilion of Women
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Peace Breaks Out
John Knowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Pearl of China
Anchee Min

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Peony In Love
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Perdido Street Station
China Mieville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Petals on the Wind
V. C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Picturing Will
Ann Beattie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Piece of My Heart
Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Pigs In Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Pleasantville
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Point Blank
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Point Omega
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Poland
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Polar Star
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Pope Joan
Donna Woolfolk Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Portrait of a Lady: A Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
Diane A.S. Stuckart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Possession
A. S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Pretend It's Love
Stefanie London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Proof of Heaven
Mary Curran Hackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Prospero's Daughter
Elizabeth Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Prudence
David Treuer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

PS, I Love You
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Purgatory
Tomás Eloy Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Purity in Death
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Quichotte
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Rabbit at Rest
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Rabbit Redux
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Rabbit, Run
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Radiance of Tomorrow
Ishmael Beah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Rain Village
Carolyn Turgeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Ransom
Julie Garwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Raw
Belle Aurora

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Reconstructing Amelia
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Doc>
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Red Sky at Morning
Richard Bradford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Red Sorghum
Mo Yan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Refuge
Dot Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Regeneration
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Remember Me Like This
Bret Anthony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Reputations
Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Revelation
C. J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Reynard the Fox
Robert van Genechten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Rice Without Rain
Minfong Ho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Ringworld
Larry Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Ripper
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Rite of Passage
Alexei Panshin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

River of Earth
James Still

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

River of Smoke
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Robopocalypse
Daniel H. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Roses Are Red
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Rules For Old Men Waiting
Peter R. Pouncey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Running the Rift
Naomi Benaron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Sacred Clowns
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Safely Home
Randy Alcorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Saffron Dreams
Shaila M. Abdullah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sailor Song
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Saint Maybe
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Saint Mazie
Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Saints and Villains
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Saints for All Occasions
J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017