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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

448 pages • first pub 1938 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
fiction classics romance thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

604 pages • first pub 1944 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
fiction classics poetry short stories funny reflective slow-paced
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

52 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
nonfiction essays feminism informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments by Oz Shelach

Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments

Oz Shelach

112 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
nonfiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie

363 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
fiction historical emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

317 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

480 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas

Before Night Falls

Reinaldo Arenas

398 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional sad slow-paced
El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig

El beso de la mujer araña

Manuel Puig

286 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ challenging reflective slow-paced
Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse

Very Good, Jeeves!

Jeeves #4

P.G. Wodehouse

258 pages • first pub 1930 (editions)

5.0rosilee's review
fiction classics short stories adventurous funny fast-paced