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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

Laura Esquivel

256 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction magical realism romance emotional tense fast-paced
The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History by Touraj Daryaee

The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History

Touraj Daryaee

414 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land and Other Poems

T.S. Eliot

88 pages • first pub 1934 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry reflective slow-paced
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

Lovecraft Country

Lovecraft Country #1

Matt Ruff

384 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0embermusic's review
fiction fantasy horror science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems

Forugh Farrokhzad

109 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

Şahnâme - Nimet Yıldırım #1

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

886 pages • first pub 1010 (editions)

nonfiction classics history poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country

Lovecraft Country #2

Matt Ruff

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous mysterious fast-paced
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind

The Kingkiller Chronicle #1

Patrick Rothfuss

661 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Consequences by Niña Weijers

The Consequences

Niña Weijers

298 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction art contemporary literary reflective slow-paced
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

581 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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