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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Thomas Cromwell #1

Hilary Mantel

650 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction historical literary challenging dark tense slow-paced
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Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris

Mike Nichols: A Life

Mark Harris

688 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history informative medium-paced
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Elizabeth Winkler

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history medium-paced
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History

Yunte Huang

384 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa

Slightly Out of Focus

Robert Capa

272 pages • first pub 1947 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir informative inspiring sad fast-paced
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

552 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction historical young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Elizabeth Smart

240 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics literary poetry emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Alone With You in the Ether

Olivie Blake

302 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction literary romance emotional reflective medium-paced
Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula

Toni Morrison

174 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking by Bill Buford

Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

Bill Buford

640 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir lighthearted medium-paced
Magnolia, 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles

Magnolia, 木蘭

Nina Mingya Powles

79 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective medium-paced