Willem van Paassen

28 books

The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

The Last Runaway

Tracy Chevalier

305 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction historical emotional medium-paced
Local Girl Missing by Claire Douglas

Local Girl Missing

Claire Douglas

368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Masha Gessen

342 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography politics informative tense slow-paced
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence

Esther Perel

272 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help informative reflective slow-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

538 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Christina Lamb

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics challenging emotional informative slow-paced
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade by Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy

The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade

Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy

448 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history informative mysterious slow-paced
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone

Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone

348 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction business psychology self help informative medium-paced
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Peter Pomerantsev

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced