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Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture by Michael B. Poliakoff

Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture

Sports and History

Michael B. Poliakoff

220 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0jakej's review
nonfiction art history sports challenging informative medium-paced
Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace

Oblivion: Stories

David Foster Wallace

330 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0jakej's review
fiction short stories challenging dark reflective slow-paced
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan

In Watermelon Sugar

Richard Brautigan

144 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

3.5jakej's review
fiction literary speculative fiction mysterious reflective fast-paced
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima

224 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ reflective slow-paced
A Princess of Mars: A Library of America Special Publication by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Princess of Mars: A Library of America Special Publication

Barsoom #1

Edgar Rice Burroughs

303 pages • first pub 1912 (editions)

4.5jakej's review
fiction classics fantasy science fiction adventurous challenging fast-paced
Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

Friedrich Nietzsche

208 pages • first pub 1889 (editions)

5.0jakej's review
nonfiction classics philosophy religion challenging reflective slow-paced
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

210 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

3.0jakej's review
fiction science fiction adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier

The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

Guy Spier

214 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

3.5jakej's review
nonfiction biography business informative medium-paced
The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Trial

Franz Kafka

191 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

3.5jakej's review
fiction classics dystopian literary dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story by Lee Berger, John Hawks

Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story

Lee Berger, John Hawks

240 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

3.0jakej's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative fast-paced