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142 books

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Small Gods

Discworld #13

Terry Pratchett

400 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction fantasy adventurous funny reflective medium-paced
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

Steven Novella

473 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
nonfiction philosophy psychology science informative slow-paced
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet by James Griffiths

The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet

James Griffiths

400 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
nonfiction politics technology informative slow-paced
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

336 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction classics literary magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami

430 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Tylko sprawiedliwość by Bryan Stevenson

Tylko sprawiedliwość

Bryan Stevenson

11 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park #1

Michael Crichton

399 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction science fiction thriller adventurous tense fast-paced
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

The Dark Forest

Remembrance of Earth's Past #2

Cixin Liu

512 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In #1

John Ajvide Lindqvist

513 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott

624 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
nonfiction biography sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced