Ioana Miruna Voiculescu

12 books

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82 by Charles Darwin, Nora Barlow

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

Charles Darwin, Nora Barlow

224 pages • first pub 1887 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

Frans de Waal

289 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology religion science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon

962 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

400 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous mysterious medium-paced
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

A Manual for Cleaning Women

Lucia Berlin

432 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction literary short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

246 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

Saving Fish from Drowning

Amy Tan

472 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

Kawai Strong Washburn

384 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments

The Handmaid's Tale #2

Margaret Atwood

419 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary dark tense medium-paced
Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future by Ian Morris

Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future

Ian Morris

681 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced