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The Fall by Albert Camus

The Fall

Albert Camus

92 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

3.0jpegben's review
fiction classics challenging dark reflective slow-paced
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

A House for Mr. Biswas

V.S. Naipaul

590 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

4.75jpegben's review
fiction literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization by Stephen Kotkin

Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization

Stephen Kotkin

728 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

A Dictator Calls

Ismail Kadare

240 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

3.25jpegben's review
fiction literary challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov

The White Guard

Mikhail Bulgakov

392 pages • first pub 1924 (editions) user-added

4.5jpegben's review
fiction classics historical dark tense slow-paced
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

192 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.0jpegben's review
fiction historical literary short stories challenging informative reflective medium-paced
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul

In a Free State

V.S. Naipaul

180 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

3.75jpegben's review
fiction literary reflective slow-paced
Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West by Susan Buck-Morss
Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
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Susan Buck-Morss

Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West

Susan Buck-Morss

390 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

The Cairo Trilogy #1-3

Naguib Mahfouz

1313 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)

5.0jpegben's review
fiction historical reflective medium-paced
Marxism and Nationalism: The Theoretical Origins of the Political Crisis by Ephraim Nimni
Marxism and Nationalism: The Theoretical Origins of the Political Crisis
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Ephraim Nimni

Marxism and Nationalism: The Theoretical Origins of the Political Crisis

Ephraim Nimni

242 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics