amandas_bookshelf's
2023
Reading Wrap-Up

Books by new authors

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

The Bandit Queens

Parini Shroff

335 pages • digital • 2023

4.0amandas_bookshelf's review
fiction contemporary thriller dark funny medium-paced
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair

7 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 2013

4.0amandas_bookshelf's review
nonfiction biography history memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Casey Cep

11 hours, 15 minutes • audio • 2019

2.5amandas_bookshelf's review
nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious medium-paced
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Mayukh Sen

304 pages • paperback • 2021

4.0amandas_bookshelf's review
nonfiction food and drink history informative inspiring medium-paced
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South by Jaha Nailah Avery

Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

Jaha Nailah Avery

12 hours, 48 minutes • audio • 2023

5.0amandas_bookshelf's review
nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

48 hours, 15 minutes • audio • 2023

5.0amandas_bookshelf's review
nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

2 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 1963

4.5amandas_bookshelf's review
nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

I Have Some Questions for You

Rebecca Makkai

438 pages • digital • 2023

4.0amandas_bookshelf's review
fiction contemporary literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

11 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 2022

4.0amandas_bookshelf's review
fiction literary emotional hopeful medium-paced
Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

Andrew McCarthy

256 pages • hardcover • 2023

4.5amandas_bookshelf's review
nonfiction memoir travel adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced