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The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

230 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction contemporary historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

304 pages • first pub 1594 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction classics play funny fast-paced
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov

185 pages • first pub 1840 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

257 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction play dark sad medium-paced
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Complete Persepolis

Persepolis #1-4

Marjane Satrapi

341 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
nonfiction graphic novel memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

Daughter of the Forest

Sevenwaters #1

Juliet Marillier

669 pages • first pub 1999 (editions) user-added

5.0lenachka's review
fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark emotional slow-paced
Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier

Son of the Shadows

Sevenwaters #2

Juliet Marillier

608 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction fantasy historical romance adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology Of Autobiographical Narratives By Twentieth Century American Women Writers by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, May Sarton, Lucille Clifton, Zora Neale Hurston, bell hooks, Kate Millett, M.F.K. Fisher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Patricia Hampl, Dorothy Day, Sandra Cisneros, Jane O'Reilly, Madeleine L'Engle, Annie Dillard, Bebe Moore Campbell, Mary Crow Dog, Ann Cornelisen, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Beverly Donofrio, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Ellen Glasgow, Lorene Cary, Jane Addams, Eileen Simpson, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Susan Cahill, Hortense Calisher, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Denise Levertov, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Maya Angelou, Natalie Kusz, Mary Mebane, Joyce Johnson, Mary Antin, Edith Wharton, Nancy Mairs, Kate Simon, Shirley Abbott, Vivian Gornick, Diane Glancy, Maureen Howard, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Bogan, Nikki Giovanni

Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology Of Autobiographical Narratives By Twentieth Century American Women Writers

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, May Sarton, Lucille Clifton, Zora Neale Hurston, bell hooks, Kate Millett, M.F.K. Fisher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Patricia Hampl, Dorothy Day, Sandra Cisneros, Jane O'Reilly, Madeleine L'Engle, Annie Dillard, Bebe Moore Campbell, Mary Crow Dog, Ann Cornelisen, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Beverly Donofrio, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Ellen Glasgow, Lorene Cary, Jane Addams, Eileen Simpson, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Susan Cahill, Hortense Calisher, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Denise Levertov, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Maya Angelou, Natalie Kusz, Mary Mebane, Joyce Johnson, Mary Antin, Edith Wharton, Nancy Mairs, Kate Simon, Shirley Abbott, Vivian Gornick, Diane Glancy, Maureen Howard, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Bogan, Nikki Giovanni

509 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
nonfiction biography feminism informative reflective slow-paced
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth

House of Earth #1

Pearl S. Buck

418 pages • first pub 1931 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction historical emotional informative sad medium-paced
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

608 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
nonfiction biography history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced