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The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

The Last Temptation of Christ

Nikos Kazantzakis

512 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

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fiction classics historical religion challenging reflective slow-paced
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

448 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Bill Bryson

272 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

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nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery by Robert F. Yeager, Terry Jones, Alan Fletcher, Terry Dolan, Juliette Dor

Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery

Robert F. Yeager, Terry Jones, Alan Fletcher, Terry Dolan, Juliette Dor

416 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History

Maus #1

Art Spiegelman

159 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

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nonfiction comics graphic novel history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Maus #2

Art Spiegelman

136 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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nonfiction comics graphic novel history memoir dark emotional sad fast-paced
Nation by Terry Pratchett

Nation

Terry Pratchett

367 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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fiction fantasy young adult adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks

342 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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fiction horror science fiction adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden

Genghis: Birth of an Empire

Conqueror #1

Conn Iggulden

528 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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fiction historical adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher

288 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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fiction contemporary mystery young adult dark emotional sad fast-paced