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49 books

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino

304 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
fiction literary science fiction emotional funny reflective medium-paced
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

10 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

385 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

5 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

7 hours, 33 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction essays memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Madeline Pendleton

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Madeline Pendleton

8 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction memoir self help hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction sociology technology funny informative reflective fast-paced
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain

8 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman by Ian Kerner

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

Ian Kerner

240 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

548 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
fiction literary dark emotional sad medium-paced