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My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped by Lev Raphael

My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped

Lev Raphael

224 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education by Craig M. Mullaney
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
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Craig M. Mullaney

The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

Craig M. Mullaney

386 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
nonfiction history memoir informative inspiring slow-paced
Q & A by Vikas Swarup

Q & A

Vikas Swarup

318 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
fiction contemporary adventurous emotional fast-paced
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink

216 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
fiction historical literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

291 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri

352 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
fiction contemporary literary short stories emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

208 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
fiction contemporary literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
City of Thieves by David Benioff

City of Thieves

David Benioff

258 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
fiction historical emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter #7

J.K. Rowling

640 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine by Elton Mackin

Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine

Elton Mackin

276 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0chriswolak's review
nonfiction history memoir emotional slow-paced