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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)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

246 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
fiction historical short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Immortality by Milan Kundera

Immortality

Milan Kundera

400 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
fiction literary philosophy challenging funny reflective medium-paced
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

336 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
fiction classics literary magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced
On the Road by Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

307 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
fiction classics literary adventurous reflective medium-paced
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck

214 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
nonfiction classics memoir travel reflective slow-paced
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

Kevin Powers

96 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
nonfiction poetry dark reflective sad slow-paced
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

Jesus' Son

Denis Johnson

133 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
fiction contemporary short stories reflective medium-paced
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Shadow of the Wind

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

528 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
fiction historical literary thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins

Evidence of Things Unseen

Marianne Wiggins

400 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0stuartjrodriguez's review
fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced