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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

Eric Klinenberg

277 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

356 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
fiction contemporary literary romance emotional reflective medium-paced
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

320 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
fiction science fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced
Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu

Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems

Tawanda Mulalu

104 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

323 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
fiction contemporary literary thriller dark tense fast-paced
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

401 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Disorientation

Elaine Hsieh Chou

403 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
fiction contemporary literary funny reflective medium-paced
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

275 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
fiction classics historical literary science fiction dark funny reflective medium-paced
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Educated by Tara Westover

Educated

Tara Westover

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0jessbishai's review
nonfiction education memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced