Agnieszka Nowakowska

10 books

Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma by Emma Larkin

Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma

Emma Larkin

288 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history travel emotional reflective slow-paced
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason

How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island

Egill Bjarnason

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays history travel funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul

India: A Million Mutinies Now

India Trilogy #3

V.S. Naipaul

480 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
Intoxicated by My Illness by Alexandra Broyard, Anatole Broyard

Intoxicated by My Illness

Alexandra Broyard, Anatole Broyard

156 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction biography essays memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Letters to My Torturer: Love, Revolution, and Imprisonment in Iran by Houshang Asadi

Letters to My Torturer: Love, Revolution, and Imprisonment in Iran

Houshang Asadi

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective slow-paced
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

Peter Godwin

432 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

321 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative sad medium-paced
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki

Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

Shereen El Feki

368 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record by John Podesta, Leslie Kean

UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record

John Podesta, Leslie Kean

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs by Ina Park

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs

Ina Park

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced