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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • paperback • 2017

5.0jenknox's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

Veronika Decides to Die

On the Seventh Day #2

Paulo Coelho

210 pages • paperback • 1998

5.0jenknox's review
fiction contemporary philosophy emotional reflective slow-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • paperback • 1993

5.0jenknox's review
fiction classics dystopian literary speculative fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields

The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead

David Shields

225 pages • hardcover • 2008

5.0jenknox's review
nonfiction biography memoir philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

Phillip Lopate

832 pages • paperback • 1994

5.0jenknox's review
nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Wish I Could Be There: Notes From a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn

Wish I Could Be There: Notes From a Phobic Life

Allen Shawn

266 pages • 2007

5.0jenknox's review
nonfiction memoir psychology reflective slow-paced
The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds

The Unswept Room

Sharon Olds

144 pages • paperback • 2002

5.0jenknox's review
literary poetry reflective slow-paced
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater

Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

Lauren Slater

240 pages • paperback • 2000

5.0jenknox's review
nonfiction memoir psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy

256 pages • paperback • 1994

5.0jenknox's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

Tobias Wolff

240 pages • paperback • 1994

5.0jenknox's review
nonfiction history memoir reflective medium-paced