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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 Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

1276 pages • first pub 1844 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Ulysses by James Joyce

Ulysses

James Joyce

980 pages • first pub 1922 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Karamazov Brothers

Fyodor Dostoevsky

986 pages • first pub 1879 (editions)

fiction classics literary philosophy religion challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

1088 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction literary challenging funny sad 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
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
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

Trilogy #1

Patrick Leigh Fermor

321 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir travel adventurous informative relaxing slow-paced
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

326 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative medium-paced
The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice by Giorgio Sanguinetti

The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice

Giorgio Sanguinetti

420 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction music informative reflective medium-paced
Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians by Robert O Gjerdingen

Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians

Robert O Gjerdingen

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history music dark informative reflective medium-paced