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Decade 4
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Imago by Octavia E. Butler

Imago

Xenogenesis #3

Octavia E. Butler

224 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
The Waves by Virginia Woolf

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

214 pages • first pub 1931 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

4 hours • first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics crime challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

238 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction essays history memoir informative reflective medium-paced
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

272 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

99 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition), Volume 1: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley

Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition), Volume 1: An Easy Rawlins Novel

Easy Rawlins #1

Walter Mosley

240 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories by J. California Cooper

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories

J. California Cooper

288 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

Kevin Wilson

6 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous emotional funny medium-paced
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange

80 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

fiction play poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced