Around the Year in 52 Books (2024) - hosted by amber47

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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

327 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland

11 hours, 48 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Pageboy by Elliot Page

Pageboy

Elliot Page

284 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley in Search of America

John Steinbeck

7 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 1962

nonfiction classics memoir travel reflective slow-paced
The Cat Who Taught Zen by James Norbury

The Cat Who Taught Zen

James Norbury

176 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction philosophy religion self help hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Boyfriends, Volume One by refrainbow

Boyfriends, Volume One

Boyfriends #1

refrainbow

328 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction comics lgbtqia+ romance adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

304 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction psychology self help technology informative medium-paced
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Mallory O'Meara

9 hours, 19 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction art biography feminism history informative inspiring medium-paced
The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer by Gretchen Reynolds

The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer

Gretchen Reynolds

9 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2012

nonfiction health psychology self help informative medium-paced
I Do Not Love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
I Do Not Love Thee
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

I Do Not Love Thee

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

10 minutes • audio • 1919 user-added

fiction poetry