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The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show #1

Larry McMurtry

280 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

4.0avolok's review
fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Aeneid by Virgil

The Aeneid

Virgil

484 pages • first pub -19 (editions)

4.0avolok's review
fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging medium-paced
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

416 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0avolok's review
nonfiction memoir politics technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

309 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

4.0avolok's review
fiction crime thriller dark tense medium-paced
Roman de Silence by Sarah Roche-Mahdi

Roman de Silence

Sarah Roche-Mahdi

343 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0avolok's review
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

210 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0avolok's review
fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

The Anatomy of Fascism

Robert O. Paxton

321 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

4.0avolok's review
nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Mark Fisher

120 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0avolok's review
nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

3.0avolok's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

288 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

4.0avolok's review
fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced