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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

The Lord of the Rings #0

J.R.R. Tolkien

315 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
fiction classics fantasy literary young adult adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
Systemic: How Racism Is Making Us Sick by Layal Liverpool

Systemic: How Racism Is Making Us Sick

Layal Liverpool

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
nonfiction health race science sociology hopeful informative medium-paced
The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian

The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

Dan Slepian

224 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
nonfiction crime sociology true crime medium-paced
Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha

Forest of Noise: Poems

Mosab Abu Toha

80 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
nonfiction memoir poetry dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

Hell Followed with Us

Andrew Joseph White

398 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
fiction dystopian horror lgbtqia+ young adult dark emotional tense medium-paced
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

300 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

640 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America by Donald W Burnes, Kevin F. Adler

When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America

Donald W Burnes, Kevin F. Adler

299 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
nonfiction politics sociology challenging hopeful informative slow-paced
Something about Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Something about Living

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

81 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
nonfiction poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

469 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

5.0booksamongstfriends's review
fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced