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Amateur: A True Story about What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

Amateur: A True Story about What Makes a Man

Thomas Page McBee

3 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Dark Days by James Baldwin

Dark Days

Penguin Modern #38

James Baldwin

50 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
nonfiction classics essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

The Colour Purple

The Color Purple Collection #1

Alice Walker

306 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
fiction classics historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Trees by Percival Everett

The Trees

Percival Everett

319 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
fiction contemporary crime literary mystery dark funny mysterious fast-paced
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

12 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
nonfiction biography feminism emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

Hilary Mantel

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
nonfiction essays challenging informative slow-paced
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

355 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

256 pages • first pub 1606 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
fiction classics play dark tense medium-paced
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley

My Phantoms

Gwendoline Riley

199 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

5.0aoifemrtn's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff

The Fortnight in September

R.C. Sherriff

326 pages • first pub 1931 (editions)

5.0aoifemrtn's review
fiction classics historical emotional funny reflective slow-paced