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88 books

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments

The Handmaid's Tale #2

Margaret Atwood

13 hours, 30 minutes • audio • 2019

5.0crabbytaco's review
fiction dystopian literary dark tense medium-paced
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman

352 pages • digital • 1997

5.0crabbytaco's review
nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

421 pages • digital • 2018

5.0crabbytaco's review
fiction contemporary historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Martyrs of Hope: Seven U.S. Missioners in Central America by Donna Whitson Brett

Martyrs of Hope: Seven U.S. Missioners in Central America

Donna Whitson Brett

304 pages • paperback • 2018

5.0crabbytaco's review
nonfiction biography history religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion by Laura E. Anderson

When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

Laura E. Anderson

240 pages • paperback • 2023

5.0crabbytaco's review
nonfiction psychology self help challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give #1

Angie Thomas

480 pages • digital • 2017

5.0crabbytaco's review
fiction contemporary young adult emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

272 pages • paperback • 1961

5.0crabbytaco's review
fiction classics fantasy middle grade adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Oscar Romero and the Communion of the Saints: A Biography by Scott Wright

Oscar Romero and the Communion of the Saints: A Biography

Scott Wright

192 pages • paperback • 2009

5.0crabbytaco's review
nonfiction biography history religion informative reflective fast-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

320 pages • digital • 2016

5.0crabbytaco's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

Sarah Weinman

304 pages • paperback • 2023

5.0crabbytaco's review
nonfiction sociology true crime challenging informative reflective medium-paced