My favourites, so far

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42 books

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators by Martin Edwards

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators

Martin Edwards

1005 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history reference dark informative mysterious medium-paced
The Weaver Takes a Wife 4-book box set: Sprightly and sparkling Regency romance by Sheri Cobb South

The Weaver Takes a Wife 4-book box set: Sprightly and sparkling Regency romance

Weaver #1-4

Sheri Cobb South

809 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction romance adventurous emotional medium-paced
Sahir Ludhianvi - The People's Poet by Akshay Manwani

Sahir Ludhianvi - The People's Poet

Akshay Manwani

340 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective slow-paced
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

Jim Al-Khalili

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and her Greatest Poets by Saif Mahmood

Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and her Greatest Poets

Saif Mahmood

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Complete Phule's Company Boxed Set by Peter Heck, Robert Lynn Asprin

The Complete Phule's Company Boxed Set

Phule's Company #1-6

Peter Heck, Robert Lynn Asprin

1473 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous funny medium-paced
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

400 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
The Dialogue of Pyaasa by Nasreen Munni Kabir

The Dialogue of Pyaasa

Nasreen Munni Kabir

213 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction reference challenging reflective medium-paced
Conversations with Waheeda Rehman by Nasreen Munni Kabir

Conversations with Waheeda Rehman

Nasreen Munni Kabir

256 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional slow-paced
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Robert Lane Greene

312 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative slow-paced