Big Book Reading 2024 - hosted by time4reading

The Bonus Prompt - Stretch Yourself
For those people who like a little extra challenge, the bonus is to pick a book that will stretch you. Maybe it’s longer than your usual long book. Maybe it’s got an unconventional structure, or is a genre you don’t usually choose. This prompt is for those of you who want to be pushed a little out of your comfort zone. Go for it!
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Samin Nosrat

469 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction cookbook food and drink informative inspiring medium-paced
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott

640 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Mary Gabriel

944 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history informative inspiring medium-paced
Jumalat juhlivat öisin by Donna Tartt

Jumalat juhlivat öisin

Donna Tartt

746 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis by William Levitan, Stanley Lombardo

Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

William Levitan, Stanley Lombardo

816 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction classics poetry
Greenwood by Michael Christie

Greenwood

Michael Christie

528 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical nature speculative fiction emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 by Robert Musil

The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1

The Man Without Qualities #1

Robert Musil

752 pages • first pub 1930 (editions)

fiction classics challenging slow-paced
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

Leah Redmond Chang

18 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history informative sad slow-paced
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory

Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History

Philippa Gregory

27 hours, 17 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative medium-paced
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

Babel: An Arcane History

R.F. Kuang

544 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced