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Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others by Melanie Joy

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

Melanie Joy

5 hours • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging informative medium-paced
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

624 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

6 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
fiction dystopian literary speculative fiction dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein

Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom

Norman G. Finkelstein

440 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion

Middle-earth Universe

J.R.R. Tolkien

442 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
fiction classics fantasy adventurous challenging slow-paced
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

David France

624 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
nonfiction health history lgbtqia+ emotional informative slow-paced
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

176 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Stranger

Albert Camus

123 pages • first pub 1942 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
fiction classics literary dark reflective medium-paced
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Edward W. Said, Christopher Hitchens

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Edward W. Said, Christopher Hitchens

296 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

319 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0bacchicecstasy's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced