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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition)

Anthony Bourdain

312 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

228 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

Goodbye to Berlin

The Berlin Novels #2

Christopher Isherwood

208 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
fiction classics short stories reflective sad slow-paced
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

154 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop by Imani Perry

Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

Imani Perry

248 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
nonfiction music poetry politics race informative medium-paced
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

The Story of the Lost Child

The Neapolitan Novels #4

Elena Ferrante

473 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming

Michelle Obama

720 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
nonfiction memoir politics hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng

350 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

453 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give #1

Angie Thomas

444 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0shameeralin's review
fiction contemporary young adult emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced