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You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith

7 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction memoir emotional 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

598 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction biography business history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

16 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival by Natalie West

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

Natalie West

309 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction essays feminism informative reflective medium-paced
Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz

Sex and Rage

Eve Babitz

245 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
fiction literary funny reflective medium-paced
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

372 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

J.B. MacKinnon

11 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction sociology challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

298 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale #1

Margaret Atwood

311 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
fiction classics dystopian literary speculative fiction dark reflective tense medium-paced
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

The Story of a New Name

The Neapolitan Novels #2

Elena Ferrante

471 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0grimja's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced