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The World According To Garp by John Irving

The World According To Garp

John Irving

544 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Immun: Alles über das faszinierende System, das uns am Leben hält by Philipp Dettmer

Immun: Alles über das faszinierende System, das uns am Leben hält

Philipp Dettmer

431 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction health science challenging funny informative medium-paced
Deutschland 2050: Wie der Klimawandel unser Leben verändern wird. Mit aktuellem Vorwort by Nick Reimer, Toralf Staud

Deutschland 2050: Wie der Klimawandel unser Leben verändern wird. Mit aktuellem Vorwort

Nick Reimer, Toralf Staud

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective medium-paced
Das Klima-Buch by Greta Thunberg

Das Klima-Buch

Greta Thunberg

512 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction nature politics science challenging informative medium-paced
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

496 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
Lifespan: Why We Age--And Why We Don't Have to by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. Laplante

Lifespan: Why We Age--And Why We Don't Have to

David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. Laplante

432 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction health science reflective slow-paced
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

448 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

307 pages • first pub 1940 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional sad medium-paced
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen Hawking

251 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
50 Great Short Stories by Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Collier, Frank O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin, William Saroryan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wilbur Daniel Steele, E.B. White, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Dorothy Parker, John O’Hara, Sylvia Townsend Warner, James Joyce, George Milburn, Harry Gideon Wells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, V. S. Pritchett, Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, James Thurber, Francis Steegmuller, H. H. Munro, Edith Wharton, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Beerbohm, Rudyard Kipling, Aldous Huxley, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Anatole France, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Lord Dunsany, Thomas Wolfe

50 Great Short Stories

Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Collier, Frank O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin, William Saroryan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wilbur Daniel Steele, E.B. White, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Dorothy Parker, John O’Hara, Sylvia Townsend Warner, James Joyce, George Milburn, Harry Gideon Wells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, V. S. Pritchett, Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, James Thurber, Francis Steegmuller, H. H. Munro, Edith Wharton, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Beerbohm, Rudyard Kipling, Aldous Huxley, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Anatole France, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Lord Dunsany, Thomas Wolfe

571 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

fiction classics short stories adventurous reflective medium-paced
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