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26 books

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

16 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

Moloka'i

Moloka'i #1

Alan Brennert

416 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

Lili'uokalani

424 pages • first pub 1898 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history emotional informative reflective slow-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)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
Ancient Hawai'i by Herb Kawainui Kane

Ancient Hawai'i

Herb Kawainui Kane

111 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative reflective slow-paced
Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern

Making Shapely Fiction

Jerome Stern

288 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative reflective medium-paced
Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

Characters & Viewpoint

Elements of Fiction Writing

Orson Scott Card

231 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative reflective medium-paced
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew by Ursula K. Le Guin

Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

About Writing

Ursula K. Le Guin

173 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction reference reflective slow-paced
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea

Earthsea Cycle #1

Ursula K. Le Guin

251 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy middle grade adventurous medium-paced
Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s by Joanna Russ, Judith Merril, Eleanor Arnason, Kate Wilhelm, Katherine MacLean, Zenna Henderson, Pamela Sargent, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Margaret St. Clair, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Pamela Zoline, Kit Reed, Lisa Tuttle, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Leigh Brackett, C.L. Moore, Sonya Dorman Hess, Anne McCaffrey, Josephine Saxton, Joan D. Vinge, James Tiptree Jr.

Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s

Women of Wonder

Joanna Russ, Judith Merril, Eleanor Arnason, Kate Wilhelm, Katherine MacLean, Zenna Henderson, Pamela Sargent, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Margaret St. Clair, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Pamela Zoline, Kit Reed, Lisa Tuttle, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Leigh Brackett, C.L. Moore, Sonya Dorman Hess, Anne McCaffrey, Josephine Saxton, Joan D. Vinge, James Tiptree Jr.

448 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories challenging slow-paced