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For the past decade, SuperSummary has developed high-quality literature Study Guides to help students, teachers, book clubs, and avid readers get more out of reading.

Written by literary scholars and subject-matter experts, our comprehensive Study Guides are designed to support learning, spark meaningful discussions, and inspire new discoveries. Every Guide features chapter-by-chapter summaries that help you keep up with plot twists or refresh your memory. We pair these summaries with expert insights and in-depth analysis to deepen your understanding of key themes, characters/figures, symbols, and more.

With an ever-expanding library featuring over 9,000 titles, SuperSummary is your go-to resource for understanding—and enjoying—every book you read, from popular fiction and contemporary literature to nonfiction favorites and classroom classics.

Books by SuperSummary

Study Guide : Cannibalism
Study Guide : Cannibalism
2025
Study Guide : Cher
Study Guide : Cher
2025
Study Guide : Cuba
Study Guide : Cuba
2025
Study Guide : Sonny Boy
Study Guide : Sonny Boy
2025
Study Guide : the Sociopath Ne
Study Guide : the Sociopath Next Door
2025
Study Guide : Trump
Study Guide : Trump
2025
Study Guide - A Careful Passion by Derek Walcott
Study Guide - A Careful Passion by Derek Walcott
2022
Study Guide - A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin
Study Guide - A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin
2022
Study Guide - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith
Study Guide - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith
2022
Study Guide - Apollo by Elizabeth Alexander
Study Guide - Apollo by Elizabeth Alexander
2022
Study Guide - Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Study Guide - Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
2022
Study Guide - Born in Blood and Fire by John Charles Chasteen
Study Guide - Born in Blood and Fire by John Charles Chasteen
2022
Study Guide - Dear Future Generations
Study Guide - Dear Future Generations
2022
Study Guide - Death of a Traveling Salesman by Eudora Welty
Study Guide - Death of a Traveling Salesman by Eudora Welty
2022
Study Guide - Entrance by Dana Gioia
Study Guide - Entrance by Dana Gioia
2022
Study Guide - Eurydice by Ocean Vuong
Study Guide - Eurydice by Ocean Vuong
2022
Study Guide - Four Poems for Robin by Gary Snyder
Study Guide - Four Poems for Robin by Gary Snyder
2022
Study Guide - Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Study Guide - Good Bones by Maggie Smith
2022
Study Guide - I Go Back to May 1937 by Sharon Olds
Study Guide - I Go Back to May 1937 by Sharon Olds
2022
Study Guide - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
Study Guide - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
2022
Study Guide - I, Too by Langston Hughes
Study Guide - I, Too by Langston Hughes
2022
Study Guide - Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop
Study Guide - Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop
2022
Study Guide - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Study Guide - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
2022
Study Guide - Knock Knock by Daniel Beaty
Study Guide - Knock Knock by Daniel Beaty
2022
Study Guide - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Study Guide - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
2022
Study Guide - Meditation 17 by John Donne
Study Guide - Meditation 17 by John Donne
2022
Study Guide - My Father's Love Letters by Yusef Komunyakaa
Study Guide - My Father's Love Letters by Yusef Komunyakaa
2022
Study Guide - Performative Acts and Gender Constitution by Judith Butler
Study Guide - Performative Acts and Gender Constitution by Judith Butler
2022
Study Guide - Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky
Study Guide - Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky
2022
Study Guide - Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
Study Guide - Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
2022
Study Guide - Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
Study Guide - Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
2022
Study Guide - Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
Study Guide - Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
2022
Study Guide - Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson
Study Guide - Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson
2022
Study Guide - Spring is like a perhaps hand by E. E. Cummings
Study Guide - Spring is like a perhaps hand by E. E. Cummings
2022
Study Guide - Still to be neat, still to be dressed by Ben Jonson
Study Guide - Still to be neat, still to be dressed by Ben Jonson
2022
Study Guide - The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Study Guide - The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
2022
Study Guide - The Flock by Derek Walcott
Study Guide - The Flock by Derek Walcott
2022
Study Guide - The Glass Essay by Anne Carson
Study Guide - The Glass Essay by Anne Carson
2022
Study Guide - The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
Study Guide - The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
2022
Study Guide - The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
Study Guide - The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
2022
Study Guide - The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander
Study Guide - The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander
2022
Study Guide - Two Sisters Of P
Study Guide - Two Sisters Of Persephone by Sylvia Plath
2022
Study Guide - Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Study Guide - Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2022
Study Guide - What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson
Study Guide - What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson
2022
Study Guide - Wingfoot Lake by Rita Dove
Study Guide - Wingfoot Lake by Rita Dove
2022
Study Guide - A Valediction
Study Guide - A Valediction
2021
Study Guide - Indian Captive by Lois Lenski
Study Guide - Indian Captive by Lois Lenski
2021
Study Guide - Jews Without Money by Michael Gold
Study Guide - Jews Without Money by Michael Gold
2021
Study Guide - Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cowper
Study Guide - Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cowper
2021
Study Guide - Mr. Mistoffelees by T.S. Eliot
Study Guide - Mr. Mistoffelees by T.S. Eliot
2021
Study Guide - Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Study Guide - Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
2021
Study Guide - Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Study Guide - Tangerine by Edward Bloor
2021
Study Guide - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Study Guide - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
2021
Study Guide - The End and the Beginning by Wisława Szymborska
Study Guide - The End and the Beginning by Wisława Szymborska
2021
Study Guide - The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Study Guide - The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
2021
Study Guide - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Study Guide - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
2021
Study Guide - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Study Guide - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2021
Study Guide - What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass
Study Guide - What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass
2021
Study Guide - Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton
Study Guide - Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton
2021
Study Guide - Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Study Guide - Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
2021
Study Guide - Citizen
Study Guide - Citizen
2020
Study Guide - Dear America
Study Guide - Dear America
2020
Study Guide - The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
Study Guide - The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
2020
Study Guide - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Study Guide - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2020
Study Guide - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Study Guide - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
2020
Study Guide - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Study Guide - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2020
Study Guide - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Study Guide - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2020
Study Guide - A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Study Guide - A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
2019
Study Guide - A History Of The World In 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Study Guide - A History Of The World In 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
2019
Study Guide - Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Study Guide - Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
2019
Study Guide - Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle
Study Guide - Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle
2019
Study Guide - Bad Boy
Study Guide - Bad Boy
2019
Study Guide - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Study Guide - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
2019
Study Guide - Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Study Guide - Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
2019
Study Guide - Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Study Guide - Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
2019
Study Guide - Celia, A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin
Study Guide - Celia, A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin
2019
Study Guide - CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Study Guide - CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
2019
Study Guide - Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Study Guide - Dead Wake by Erik Larson
2019
Study Guide - Decolonizing the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Study Guide - Decolonizing the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
2019
Study Guide - Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Study Guide - Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
2019
Study Guide - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Study Guide - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
2019
Study Guide - Emile
Study Guide - Emile
2019
Study Guide - Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
Study Guide - Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
2019
Study Guide - Find Me Unafraid
Study Guide - Find Me Unafraid
2019
Study Guide - First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
Study Guide - First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
2019
Study Guide - Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Study Guide - Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
2019
Study Guide - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Study Guide - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
2019
Study Guide - Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Study Guide - Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
2019
Study Guide - Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Study Guide - Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
2019
Study Guide - His Excellency
Study Guide - His Excellency
2019
Study Guide - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Study Guide - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2019
Study Guide - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Study Guide - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
2019
Study Guide - Montaigne
Study Guide - Montaigne
2019
Study Guide - Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Study Guide - Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
2019
Study Guide - New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Study Guide - New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
2019
Study Guide - Newjack by Ted Conover
Study Guide - Newjack by Ted Conover
2019
Study Guide - Oil on Water by Helon Habila
Study Guide - Oil on Water by Helon Habila
2019
Study Guide - On Writing
Study Guide - On Writing
2019
Study Guide - Ordinary Men
Study Guide - Ordinary Men
2019
Study Guide - Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Study Guide - Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
2019
Study Guide - Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo
Study Guide - Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo
2019
Study Guide - Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
Study Guide - Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
2019
Study Guide - Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Study Guide - Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
2019
Study Guide - Salt
Study Guide - Salt
2019
Study Guide - Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Study Guide - Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
2019
Study Guide - The Book Of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Study Guide - The Book Of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
2019
Study Guide - The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Study Guide - The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
2019
Study Guide - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Study Guide - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
2019
Study Guide - The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
Study Guide - The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
2019
Study Guide - The Good Thief
Study Guide - The Good Thief
2019
Study Guide - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Study Guide - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2019
Study Guide - The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
Study Guide - The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
2019
Study Guide - The Letters Of Abelard And Heloise by Peter Abelard & Heloise
Study Guide - The Letters Of Abelard And Heloise by Peter Abelard & Heloise
2019
Study Guide - The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Study Guide - The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
2019
Study Guide - The Maypole Of Merry Mount by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Study Guide - The Maypole Of Merry Mount by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2019
Study Guide - The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Study Guide - The Maze Runner by James Dashner
2019
Study Guide - The Raft by S.A. Bodeen
Study Guide - The Raft by S.A. Bodeen
2019
Study Guide - The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Study Guide - The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
2019
Study Guide - The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Study Guide - The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
2019
Study Guide - The Trojan War
Study Guide - The Trojan War
2019
Study Guide - The Wars by Timothy Findley
Study Guide - The Wars by Timothy Findley
2019
Study Guide - Trash by Andy Mulligan
Study Guide - Trash by Andy Mulligan
2019
Study Guide - Twilight
Study Guide - Twilight
2019
Study Guide - Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Study Guide - Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
2019
Study Guide - Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Study Guide - Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
2019
Study Guide - 1776 by David McCullough
Study Guide - 1776 by David McCullough
2018
Study Guide - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Study Guide - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
2018
Study Guide - Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Study Guide - Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
2018
Study Guide - Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Study Guide - Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
2018
Study Guide - Drinking
Study Guide - Drinking
2018
Study Guide - Escaping Salem by Richard Godbeer
Study Guide - Escaping Salem by Richard Godbeer
2018
Study Guide - House Arrest by K.A. Holt
Study Guide - House Arrest by K.A. Holt
2018
Study Guide - Salt To The Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Study Guide - Salt To The Sea by Ruta Sepetys
2018
Study Guide - Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington
Study Guide - Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington
2018
Study Guide - Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
Study Guide - Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
2018
Study Guide - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Study Guide - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
2018
Study Guide - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Study Guide - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2018
Study Guide - The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse
Study Guide - The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse
2018
Study Guide - The Mismeasure Of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
Study Guide - The Mismeasure Of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
2018
Study Guide - The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Study Guide - The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
2018
Study Guide - The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Study Guide - The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
2018
Study Guide - The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller
Study Guide - The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller
2018
Study Guide - The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Study Guide - The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2018
Study Guide - The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Study Guide - The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
2018
Study Guide - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nyguen
Study Guide - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nyguen
2018
Study Guide - The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Study Guide - The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
2018
Study Guide - The Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Study Guide - The Working Poor by David K. Shipler
2018
Study Guide - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Study Guide - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
2017
Study Guide - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Study Guide - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
2016
Study Guide - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Study Guide - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
2015
Study Guide - Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Study Guide - Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
2015
Study Guide - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Study Guide - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2015
Study Guide - Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Study Guide - Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
2015
Study Guide - Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Study Guide - Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
2015
Study Guide - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Study Guide - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
2015
Study Guide - Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Study Guide - Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
2015
Study Guide - The Submission by Amy Waldman
Study Guide - The Submission by Amy Waldman
2015
Study Guide - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Study Guide - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
2015
Study Guide - The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Study Guide - The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
1989