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Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity by Priya Basil

Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity

Priya Basil

128 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.25janiswong's review
nonfiction essays food and drink memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Bad People: And How to Be Rid of Them. A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson QC

Bad People: And How to Be Rid of Them. A Plan B for Human Rights

Geoffrey Robertson QC

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.75janiswong's review
medium-paced
Economics for the Common Good by Jean Tirole

Economics for the Common Good

Jean Tirole

584 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

4.5janiswong's review
nonfiction economics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Turbulence by David Szalay

Turbulence

David Szalay

160 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0janiswong's review
fiction short stories emotional reflective fast-paced
In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System by Alexandra Wilson

In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System

Alexandra Wilson

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0janiswong's review
nonfiction memoir race challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

252 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0janiswong's review
nonfiction business economics psychology informative medium-paced
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

Tom Burgis

464 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.5janiswong's review
nonfiction politics dark informative medium-paced
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

544 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.0janiswong's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

Uncanny Valley

Anna Wiener

279 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0janiswong's review
nonfiction memoir technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Small World by David Lodge

Small World

The Campus Trilogy #2

David Lodge

352 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

3.0janiswong's review
fiction contemporary funny lighthearted medium-paced