Best Literary Fiction Book Summaries

Community-contributed chapter-by-chapter summaries for Literary Fiction books.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold cover
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Summary•English
5 chapters
Norwegian Wood cover
Norwegian Wood
Summary•English
10 chapters
The Stranger cover
The Stranger

By Albert Camus

Summary•English
11 chapters
Altorių šešėly cover
Altorių šešėly

By Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas

Summary•English
80 chapters
The Handmaid’s Tale cover
The Handmaid’s Tale

By Margaret Atwood

Summary•English
46 chapters
The Sorrow of War cover
The Sorrow of War

By Bao Ninh

Summary•English
2 chapters
Norwegian wood cover
Norwegian wood

By Haruki Murakami

Summary•English
3 chapters

Unknown author

found the unfindable part 1

2026

Summarsky

found the unfindable part 1
Summary•English
1 chapter
The God of Small Things cover
The God of Small Things

By Arundhati Roy

Summary•English
3 chapters
Purple Hibiscus cover
Purple Hibiscus

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Summary•English
4 chapters
The World's Wife cover
The World's Wife

By Carol Ann Duffy

Summary•English
25 chapters