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112 books

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Cheryl Strayed

353 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
nonfiction essays memoir self help emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

268 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

724 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari

400 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
nonfiction history politics psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

312 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

My Side of the Mountain

Mountain #1

Jean Craighead George

208 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
fiction childrens classics middle grade adventurous slow-paced
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Skyward

Skyward #1

Brandon Sanderson

513 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
fiction science fiction young adult adventurous funny medium-paced
Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir by Alicia Roth Weigel

Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir

Alicia Roth Weigel

6 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

320 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
nonfiction history adventurous informative sad slow-paced
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You

Dina Nayeri

368 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0justallison17's review
nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced