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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

448 pages • hardcover • 2011

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano

Movies (and Other Things)

Shea Serrano

256 pages • hardcover • 2019

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction essays funny lighthearted fast-paced
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

305 pages • hardcover • 2019

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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Erik Larson

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson

17 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2020

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A Promised Land

The Presidential Memoirs #1

Barack Obama

768 pages • hardcover • 2020

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction memoir politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman

American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears

Farah Stockman

432 pages • hardcover • 2021

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction economics politics informative reflective medium-paced
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

224 pages • hardcover • 2020

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

336 pages • hardcover • 2021

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

239 pages • hardcover • 2021

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring

Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

Chris Herring

349 pages • paperback • 2022

5.0paytonr's review
nonfiction history sports dark informative tense medium-paced