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Travels with Herodotus by Klara Główczewska, Ryszard Kapuściński

Travels with Herodotus

Klara Główczewska, Ryszard Kapuściński

288 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
nonfiction history travel adventurous informative slow-paced
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Swann's Way

In Search of Lost Time #1

Marcel Proust

468 pages • first pub 1913 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
fiction classics literary emotional sad slow-paced
About a Mountain by John D'Agata

About a Mountain

John D'Agata

240 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
nonfiction essays history memoir politics science dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel

The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy

Raj Patel

256 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
nonfiction business economics politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Clay Shirky

336 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
nonfiction business informative reflective medium-paced
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

445 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

472 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation

Steven Johnson

326 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
nonfiction business history science informative reflective slow-paced
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

In Search of Lost Time #1-2

Marcel Proust

1056 pages • first pub 1919 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
fiction classics emotional slow-paced
1Q84: Book Three by Haruki Murakami

1Q84: Book Three

1Q84 #3

Haruki Murakami

364 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0dehowell's review
fiction literary magical realism thriller mysterious reflective medium-paced