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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin

768 pages • hardcover • 1994

5.0jeffphilly's review
nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

352 pages • paperback • 1989

3.75jeffphilly's review
nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

Alexander Rose

384 pages • digital • 2006

2.75jeffphilly's review
nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

A Brief History Series #1

Yuval Noah Harari

447 pages • digital • 2011

4.75jeffphilly's review
nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced
Closing Time by Joseph Heller

Closing Time

Catch-22 #2

Joseph Heller

464 pages • paperback • 1994

3.0jeffphilly's review
fiction classics challenging funny reflective slow-paced
Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry

Leaving Cheyenne

Thalia, Texas #2

Larry McMurtry

304 pages • 1962

2.0jeffphilly's review
fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World by

Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World

390 pages • hardcover

2.75jeffphilly's review
nonfiction history reference science technology informative fast-paced
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

The Border Trilogy #1

Cormac McCarthy

302 pages • paperback • 1992

2.0jeffphilly's review
fiction historical literary adventurous emotional slow-paced
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm
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George Orwell

Animal Farm

George Orwell

148 pages • 1945

4.25jeffphilly's review
fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective fast-paced
A Cornucopia of Dunderheads by John Kennedy Toole Jr.

A Cornucopia of Dunderheads

John Kennedy Toole Jr.

422 pages • 2015

5.0jeffphilly's review
challenging funny medium-paced