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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

368 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
fiction historical literary challenging dark slow-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

640 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

441 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
Trout Fishing in America / The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan

Trout Fishing in America / The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar

Richard Brautigan

400 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
fiction essays literary poetry short stories reflective slow-paced
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

268 pages • first pub 1932 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

168 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction psychology sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace

Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda

Robert Wallace

548 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Killing Rage by Eamon Collins, Mick McGovern

Killing Rage

Eamon Collins, Mick McGovern

400 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
Gargoyle: Reporting from frontlines, jail cells, and trap houses by Jake Hanrahan

Gargoyle: Reporting from frontlines, jail cells, and trap houses

Jake Hanrahan

100 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

70 pages • first pub 1909 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
fiction classics science fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced