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15 books

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Idiot

The Idiot #1

Elif Batuman

423 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
fiction literary funny reflective slow-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

247 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway, Robert Olen Butler

From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction

Janet Burroway, Robert Olen Butler

269 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
nonfiction reference challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Art of Revision: The Last Word by Peter Ho Davies

The Art of Revision: The Last Word

Peter Ho Davies

172 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
nonfiction reflective medium-paced
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

Thomas Cromwell #2

Hilary Mantel

432 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
fiction historical literary challenging emotional medium-paced
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Thomas Cromwell #1

Hilary Mantel

604 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
fiction historical literary challenging dark tense slow-paced
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez

120 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
fiction classics literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono by Yoko Ono

Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

320 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
nonfiction art music philosophy poetry informative lighthearted fast-paced
How Fiction Works by James Wood

How Fiction Works

James Wood

265 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
nonfiction reference challenging reflective slow-paced
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Matt Bell

156 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0torchlab's review
nonfiction reference self help informative medium-paced