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Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico by Noé Álvarez

Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico

Noé Álvarez

5 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

3.75aweekinthelife's review
nonfiction history memoir music emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata

A Woman of Pleasure

Kiyoko Murata

309 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

4.25aweekinthelife's review
fiction historical emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

12 hours, 35 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

4.75aweekinthelife's review
nonfiction history memoir travel informative medium-paced
Tightrope by Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof

Tightrope

Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof

9 hours, 43 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.0aweekinthelife's review
nonfiction economics politics sociology reflective medium-paced
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Reza Aslan

8 hours, 8 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions)

3.75aweekinthelife's review
nonfiction biography history religion challenging medium-paced
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Ruha Benjamin

295 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.25aweekinthelife's review
nonfiction race science technology challenging informative slow-paced
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

18 hours, 13 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

4.5aweekinthelife's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

Afterparties

Anthony Veasna So

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.25aweekinthelife's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary short stories emotional funny reflective medium-paced
No-No Boy by John Okada

No-No Boy

John Okada

260 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)

4.0aweekinthelife's review
fiction classics historical emotional reflective sad slow-paced
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey

11 hours, 33 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

4.5aweekinthelife's review
nonfiction history sociology informative reflective sad medium-paced