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The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys

The Bletchley Riddle

Ruta Sepetys

400 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
fiction historical middle grade adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

A World of Curiosities

Chief Inspector Gamache #18

Louise Penny

390 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
fiction mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History by Sharon McMahon

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

Sharon McMahon

307 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
nonfiction history politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Q: A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown

Q: A Voyage Around the Queen

Craig Brown

662 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
nonfiction biography
Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

Craig Whitlock

480 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
nonfiction biography history true crime medium-paced
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

432 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Georgia O'Keeffe by Lisa Mintz Messinger

Georgia O'Keeffe

Lisa Mintz Messinger

192 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
nonfiction art biography informative reflective slow-paced
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove #3

Larry McMurtry

960 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
fiction classics historical literary adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
Ed Ruscha Now Then by Christophe Cherix
Ed Ruscha Now Then
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Christophe Cherix

Ed Ruscha Now Then

Christophe Cherix

335 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

5.0booksrockcal's review
nonfiction art
Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen by Robert Jobson

Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen

Robert Jobson

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0booksrockcal's review
nonfiction biography medium-paced