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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt

338 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
nonfiction education politics psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

337 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

Bill Browder

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
nonfiction politics dark informative tense medium-paced
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling

342 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
nonfiction economics psychology science hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

Bill Browder

380 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative tense medium-paced
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James M. Fallows

Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy

James M. Fallows

352 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

10 hours, 8 minutes • first pub 1947 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
nonfiction classics history memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

552 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
fiction historical young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Pillars of the Earth

Kingsbridge #1

Ken Follett

973 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
fiction historical adventurous emotional tense slow-paced
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

449 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0howgreen's review
fiction historical romance emotional reflective slow-paced