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Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

270 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
fiction classics historical challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
nonfiction autobiography adventurous funny informative medium-paced
I, Claudius by Robert Graves

I, Claudius

Claudius #1

Robert Graves

416 pages • first pub 1934 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
fiction classics historical challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino

400 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
fiction crime historical literary dark funny medium-paced
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

Booth

Karen Joy Fowler

469 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
fiction historical literary dark sad tense slow-paced
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

230 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

200 pages • first pub 1899 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
fiction classics literary challenging dark slow-paced
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night

Julian Sancton

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
nonfiction history adventurous reflective slow-paced
James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition by William Battersby

James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition

William Battersby

224 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced
An Oresteia by Euripides, Aeschylus, Anne Carson, Sophocles

An Oresteia

Euripides, Aeschylus, Anne Carson, Sophocles

272 pages • first pub -458 (editions)

5.0merchantivory's review
fiction classics play dark reflective slow-paced