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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

389 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

368 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

American Dirt

Jeanine Cummins

400 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
fiction contemporary emotional sad tense medium-paced
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

The Dovekeepers

Alice Hoffman

504 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
fiction historical magical realism emotional reflective slow-paced
Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation by Jon Ward

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

Jon Ward

256 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
nonfiction history religion sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Resmaa Menakem

319 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
nonfiction politics psychology race self help sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

448 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
fiction historical emotional sad medium-paced
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

443 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

Broken Horses

Brandi Carlile

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir music emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Gilbert King

434 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0brob1856's review
nonfiction biography history true crime challenging emotional informative medium-paced