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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

159 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

5.0jwanz86's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre

58 pages • first pub 1944 (editions)

5.0jwanz86's review
fiction classics philosophy play challenging reflective slow-paced
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

368 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0jwanz86's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories about People Who Know How They Will Die by Matthew Bennardo, Ryan North, David Malki

Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories about People Who Know How They Will Die

Machine of Death #1

Matthew Bennardo, Ryan North, David Malki

452 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0jwanz86's review
fiction science fiction short stories speculative fiction funny slow-paced
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks

342 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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fiction horror science fiction adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

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fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed #2

Octavia E. Butler

448 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0jwanz86's review
fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler

310 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious tense medium-paced
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

Diane Guerrero

257 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0jwanz86's review
nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

176 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0jwanz86's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced