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12 books

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

592 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano

390 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
nonfiction feminism gender lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.

Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

Charles L. Marohn Jr.

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
nonfiction business economics politics informative slow-paced
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

A Brief History Series #2

Yuval Noah Harari

14 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley

219 pages • first pub 1818 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Atonement

Ian McEwan

351 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

28 pages • first pub 1849 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
nonfiction classics philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

268 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

406 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
nonfiction philosophy religion science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

307 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0samsmucny's review
nonfiction philosophy religion reflective slow-paced