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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

David Foster Wallace

336 pages • paperback • 1999

5.0brockter's review
fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800 by Leland Ferguson

Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800

Leland Ferguson

232 pages • paperback • 1992

5.0brockter's review
nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Jon Ronson

288 pages • hardcover • 2011

5.0brockter's review
nonfiction psychology science sociology dark funny informative fast-paced
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

317 pages • paperback • 2003

5.0brockter's review
nonfiction business economics sports informative inspiring medium-paced
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

346 pages • hardcover • 2008

5.0brockter's review
nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen by Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

Christopher McDougall

287 pages • hardcover • 2009

5.0brockter's review
nonfiction science sports adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery by John Michael Vlach

Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery

Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

John Michael Vlach

278 pages • paperback • 1992

5.0brockter's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Divergent by Veronica Roth

Divergent

Divergent #1

Veronica Roth

487 pages • paperback • 2011

5.0brockter's review
fiction dystopian romance young adult adventurous tense fast-paced
James Madison and the Making of America by Kevin R.C. Gutzman

James Madison and the Making of America

Kevin R.C. Gutzman

416 pages • hardcover

5.0brockter's review
nonfiction autobiography biography historical history informative reflective slow-paced
The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan

The Dragon Reborn

The Wheel of Time #3

Robert Jordan

699 pages • paperback • 1991

5.0brockter's review
fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced