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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read

318 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
nonfiction history adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

447 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
nonfiction history true crime dark informative mysterious slow-paced
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Maggie Nelson

288 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
nonfiction art essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie

Stephen King

272 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
fiction horror thriller dark tense medium-paced
11/22/63 by Stephen King

11/22/63

Stephen King

849 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
fiction historical science fiction thriller adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
nonfiction essays memoir music emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay

The Hunger Games #3

Suzanne Collins

390 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
fiction dystopian science fiction young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
My Antonia by Willa Cather

My Antonia

Great Plains Trilogy #3

Willa Cather

266 pages • first pub 1918 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
fiction classics emotional reflective slow-paced
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

The Hunger Games #2

Suzanne Collins

391 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0dumaurier's review
fiction dystopian science fiction young adult adventurous emotional tense fast-paced