Book in a Minute — The Books You've Been Meaning to Read

The novels you have been meaning to read for years. Sixty of them, each told in full — beginning, middle and end — in about two pages.

Anna Karenina. Jane Eyre's sisters in spirit, all five Austens. Treasure Island. The Brothers Karamazov. Alice in Wonderland. Middlemarch. Peter Pan. Madame Bovary. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Four by Hardy, four by Dickens, three by Jules Verne. Sixty in total.

This is not a teaser and not a review. Every chapter gives you the actual story in order, with the real names and the real turns, the ending as it lands, and a short account of what the book is reaching for and why people have kept returning to it for a century or more.

Two kinds of reader get something from this. If you have never read the book, you will finish the chapter knowing genuinely what happens — enough to follow the conversation, and enough to decide whether you want to go and read the real thing. If you read it at school twenty years ago and remember the shape without the detail, this is a re-read compressed into a few minutes.

What you get: 247 pages, delivered as a PDF you can read on a phone, tablet or laptop, or print at home. Instant download. Yours forever, no subscription.

Written by the creator of Book in a Minute.