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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction business science sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir by Séamas O'Reilly

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir

Séamas O'Reilly

5 hours • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

598 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction biography business health history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Isaac Fitzgerald

7 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction essays gender memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

560 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks

225 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction education feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen

18 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction memoir music emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

150 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Chen Chen

96 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0madgerdes's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective slow-paced