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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

Daniel James Brown

337 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous reflective slow-paced
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

404 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
nonfiction history challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

252 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
fiction classics horror literary dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson

Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey

Peter Carlson

268 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear

Sherlock Holmes #5; 7

Arthur Conan Doyle

416 pages • first pub 1902 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

449 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
fiction historical romance emotional reflective slow-paced
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

American Gods

American Gods #1

Neil Gaiman

480 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

The Christmas Books #1

Charles Dickens

111 pages • first pub 1843 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
fiction classics fantasy hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston

Snow Mountain Passage

James D. Houston

336 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0nimbushfish's review
fiction historical reflective slow-paced
Tooth of the Covenant by Norman Lock

Tooth of the Covenant

American Novels

Norman Lock

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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fiction historical literary