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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

84, Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff

97 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

Bonjour Tristesse

Françoise Sagan

112 pages • first pub 1954 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See by Seth Godin

This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See

Seth Godin

271 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction business informative lighthearted medium-paced
Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Writers & Lovers

Lily King

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary romance emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

Angela Saini

224 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced
Motherhood by Sheila Heti

Motherhood

Sheila Heti

284 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott

The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

Karen Abbott

11 hours, 16 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime informative mysterious slow-paced
Misery by Stephen King

Misery

Stephen King

12 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction horror mystery thriller dark tense medium-paced