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Moby Dick; or, the whale by Herman Melville

Moby Dick; or, the whale

Herman Melville

690 pages • first pub 1851 (editions)

fiction classics literary adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol 2: Modern India and Pakistan by Stephen Hay, William Theodore de Bary

Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol 2: Modern India and Pakistan

Stephen Hay, William Theodore de Bary

433 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
The Mourning Song of Solitude by Wesley Savage

The Mourning Song of Solitude

Nycanthium Cycle #0

Wesley Savage

148 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy
Unnatural Perpetrators: Texas Cases 1.1-1.3 by John Austin Baltisberger, Reed Alexander

Unnatural Perpetrators: Texas Cases 1.1-1.3

John Austin Baltisberger, Reed Alexander

316 pages • missing pub info (editions)

dark mysterious tense medium-paced
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

The Indian Lake Trilogy #1

Stephen Graham Jones

398 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer

Veniss Underground

Jeff VanderMeer

410 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror science fiction challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners by Josh Davidson, Eric King

Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners

Josh Davidson, Eric King

437 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics dark emotional hopeful medium-paced
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

The Mimicking of Known Successes

The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #1

Malka Older

169 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ mystery science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine

How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling

Danny Caine

222 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction business economics hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
Analog Annual by George R.R. Martin, John Schoenherr, Spider Robinson, Vincent di Fate, Ben Bova, P.J. Plauger, John Gribbin, Jack Gaughan, Dean Ing, Frank Kelly Freas

Analog Annual

Analog Yearbook

George R.R. Martin, John Schoenherr, Spider Robinson, Vincent di Fate, Ben Bova, P.J. Plauger, John Gribbin, Jack Gaughan, Dean Ing, Frank Kelly Freas

256 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous slow-paced
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