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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

624 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
nonfiction biography informative reflective medium-paced
Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter

Sun Tracks

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

81 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Resurrecting Extinct Species: Ethics and Authenticity by Patrick Michael Whittle, Douglas Ian Campbell

Resurrecting Extinct Species: Ethics and Authenticity

Patrick Michael Whittle, Douglas Ian Campbell

128 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
nonfiction
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga

Cockroaches

Scholastique Mukasonga

165 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Fox Hunt: four strangers, thirteen days, and one man's amazing journey to safety by Mohammed Al Samawi

The Fox Hunt: four strangers, thirteen days, and one man's amazing journey to safety

Mohammed Al Samawi

336 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Joan Lindsay

189 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
fiction classics mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo

It Would Be Night in Caracas

Karina Sainz Borgo

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
fiction contemporary literary dark sad tense medium-paced
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

An Elegy for Easterly

Petina Gappah

288 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
fiction short stories emotional medium-paced
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 3: The Rat by Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick

Pretty Deadly, Vol. 3: The Rat

Pretty Deadly #11-15

Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick

152 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
fiction dystopian fantasy graphic novel literary adventurous slow-paced
Pretty Deadly: The Rat #5 by Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick

Pretty Deadly: The Rat #5

Pretty Deadly #15

Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick

31 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0octavia_cade's review
fiction comics nature politics adventurous medium-paced