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113 books

The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts

The Eighty-Dollar Champion

Elizabeth Letts

338 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
nonfiction biography reflective sad medium-paced
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by David Oliver Relin, Greg Mortenson

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

David Oliver Relin, Greg Mortenson

349 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
nonfiction biography memoir travel adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
The Road to Home: My Life and Times by Vartan Gregorian

The Road to Home: My Life and Times

Vartan Gregorian

354 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
nonfiction biography emotional reflective slow-paced
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman

432 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories by Pam Houston

Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

Pam Houston

192 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
fiction short stories reflective fast-paced
Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Wonder

Wonder #1

R.J. Palacio

320 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
fiction contemporary middle grade young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson

480 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
nonfiction history informative medium-paced
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

12 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

440 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0jcburcham's review
fiction historical emotional sad medium-paced
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

16 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

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