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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo

288 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

323 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0the_count's review
fiction fantasy horror magical realism adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych

Leo Tolstoy

88 pages • first pub 1886 (editions)

5.0the_count's review
fiction classics literary dark reflective sad medium-paced
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

Gananath Obeyesekere

336 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0the_count's review
nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology Versus Ethnography by

The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology Versus Ethnography

224 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0the_count's review
nonfiction sociology
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

177 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

3.5the_count's review
fiction classics middle grade adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
Profanations by Giorgio Agamben

Profanations

Giorgio Agamben

99 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

3.5the_count's review
nonfiction essays philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

138 pages • first pub 1942 (editions)

4.5the_count's review
nonfiction classics essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut by Nigel Barley

The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut

The Innocent Anthropologist #1

Nigel Barley

189 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

4.25the_count's review
nonfiction biography reflective medium-paced
The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

Marcel Mauss

146 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

4.0the_count's review
nonfiction essays sociology informative reflective slow-paced