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La Débâcle by Émile Zola

La Débâcle

Les Rougon-Macquart #19

Émile Zola

536 pages • first pub 1892 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark reflective tense slow-paced
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

Jan Swafford

1104 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music informative reflective slow-paced
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Max Weber

320 pages • first pub 1904 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Mark Fisher

81 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann

Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend

Thomas Mann

544 pages • first pub 1947 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by Eric Hobsbawm
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
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Eric Hobsbawm

Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality

Eric Hobsbawm

214 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

Ellen Meiksins Wood

213 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

784 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Journey to the End of the Night

Ferdinand Bardamu #1

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

453 pages • first pub 1932 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Political Order #1

Francis Fukuyama

585 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Blindness by José Saramago

Blindness

Blindness #1

José Saramago

352 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
The Recognitions by William Gaddis

The Recognitions

William Gaddis

976 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced