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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium

Caitlin Doughty

254 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth

Animals

Emma Jane Unsworth

256 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
fiction contemporary dark funny medium-paced
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

441 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

453 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Weather by Jenny Offill

Weather

Jenny Offill

224 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
fiction contemporary challenging funny reflective fast-paced
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby

Wow, No Thank You.

Samantha Irby

316 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir funny reflective medium-paced
Circe by Madeline Miller

Circe

Madeline Miller

393 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

415 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
nonfiction biography history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

343 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0annelies's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced