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42 books

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

10 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm

George Orwell

3 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 1945 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
fiction classics dystopian dark reflective fast-paced
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

9 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

18 hours, 6 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
nonfiction biography business history true crime dark informative medium-paced
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

5 hours, 32 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
nonfiction memoir music emotional reflective sad fast-paced
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

208 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

416 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

337 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
fiction contemporary literary emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
Night by Elie Wiesel

Night

The Night Trilogy #1

Elie Wiesel

89 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

5.0chrystal_'s review
nonfiction history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced