mrsbennefits's
2025
Reading Wrap-Up

Books by new authors

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

321 pages • 2020 • 99 editions

fiction historical horror mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
2.0 mrsbennefits's review
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

16h 57m • 2010 • 35 editions

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
5.0 mrsbennefits's review
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Wolraich

The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

Michael Wolraich

11h 28m • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
3.0 mrsbennefits's review
Wild Things by Sally Rippin

Wild Things

Sally Rippin

5h 19m • 2022 • 4 editions

nonfiction education self help hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
4.0 mrsbennefits's review
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior

The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

Sarah Kendzior

6h • 2015 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
4.0 mrsbennefits's review
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

ReVisioning American History

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

10h 18m • 2014 • 25 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
3.0 mrsbennefits's review
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Donalyn Miller

227 pages • 2009 • 5 editions

nonfiction education informative inspiring medium-paced
4.0 mrsbennefits's review
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me about Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen

Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me about Caring for the Living

Robert A. Jensen

288 pages • 2021 • 6 editions

nonfiction memoir sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
4.5 mrsbennefits's review
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

4h 56m • 2003 • 28 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
4.0 mrsbennefits's review
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf

8h 21m • 2007 • 20 editions

nonfiction education psychology science reflective slow-paced
5.0 mrsbennefits's review