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Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
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Richard Kluger

Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

Richard Kluger

823 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

200 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction reference informative reflective slow-paced
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

227 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

185 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Plainsong

Plainsong #1

Kent Haruf

301 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
fiction literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will by Judith Schalansky

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will

Judith Schalansky

240 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction history travel adventurous medium-paced
Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports by John Branch

Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports

John Branch

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction essays sports emotional medium-paced
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

509 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
My Losing Season: A Memoir by Pat Conroy

My Losing Season: A Memoir

Pat Conroy

432 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction biography memoir sports emotional funny reflective medium-paced
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

208 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

5.0writesdave's review
fiction classics fantasy literary adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced