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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein

321 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

1.0ryanboyd's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil

How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

Vaclav Smil

448 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction science informative medium-paced
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly, Brad Ricca, Courtney Sieh

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly, Brad Ricca, Courtney Sieh

176 pages • first pub 1887 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction history memoir psychology dark informative sad fast-paced
Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases by Roy Benaroch
Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases
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Roy Benaroch

Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases

Roy Benaroch

missing duration info • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction science informative medium-paced
Why You Are Who You Are: Investigations Into Human Personality by Mark R. Leary

Why You Are Who You Are: Investigations Into Human Personality

Mark R. Leary

12 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions) user-added

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction psychology science informative slow-paced
The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague by Dorsey Armstrong

The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague

The Great Courses

Dorsey Armstrong

12 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin

Lawrence Weschler

215 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction art biography design informative reflective slow-paced
The Shaping of a Behaviorist by B.F. Skinner

The Shaping of a Behaviorist

B.F. Skinner

384 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
biography psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Doom Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero

Doom Guy: Life in First Person

John Romero

370 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction autobiography video games informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King

320 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction memoir reference informative inspiring reflective medium-paced