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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

352 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard

More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

Meredith Broussard

232 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction gender race science technology informative reflective medium-paced
In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford

In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law

Sarah Langford

298 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir true crime challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good by Eric T. Freyfogle

The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good

Eric T. Freyfogle

335 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction nature sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World by Allan C. Hutchinson

Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World

Allan C. Hutchinson

247 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South by Matthew Van Meter

Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

Matthew Van Meter

missing duration info • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction crime history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases by Sam Fowles

Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases

Sam Fowles

256 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics
About Law: An Introduction by Tony Honoré

About Law: An Introduction

Tony Honoré

120 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Reuben Jonathan Miller

Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Reuben Jonathan Miller

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction sociology emotional reflective sad medium-paced