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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Thomas Cromwell #1

Hilary Mantel

650 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
fiction historical literary challenging dark tense slow-paced
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games #1

Suzanne Collins

374 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
fiction dystopian science fiction young adult adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

Thomas Cromwell #2

Hilary Mantel

432 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
fiction historical literary challenging emotional medium-paced
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

Simon Winchester

13 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced
When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation by François Furstenberg

When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

François Furstenberg

512 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Unseen Academicals

Discworld #37

Terry Pratchett

516 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Brotton

A History of the World in 12 Maps

Jerry Brotton

521 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Way of Kings

The Stormlight Archive #1

Brandon Sanderson

1124 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
fiction fantasy adventurous emotional medium-paced
Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War by Ari Kelman, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War

Ari Kelman, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

224 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction history emotional medium-paced
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

Big Stone Gap

Big Stone Gap #1

Adriana Trigiani

304 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
fiction romance lighthearted slow-paced