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The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

The Last Graduate

The Scholomance #2

Naomi Novik

388 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid

369 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

389 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

288 pages • first pub 1932 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction challenging dark reflective medium-paced
WE, Yevgeny Zamyatin and A modern Utopia, H.G. Wells by H.G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin

WE, Yevgeny Zamyatin and A modern Utopia, H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin

272 pages • first pub 1924 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
fiction classics dystopian science fiction speculative fiction challenging dark reflective slow-paced
The Symposium by Plato

The Symposium

Plato

144 pages • first pub -380 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
nonfiction classics philosophy informative reflective medium-paced
Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz

Eve's Hollywood

Eve Babitz

296 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
fiction literary memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato

Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Plato

156 pages • first pub -385 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
nonfiction classics philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Oresteia #01-03

Aeschylus

335 pages • first pub -458 (editions)

5.0richardpapensympathiser's review
fiction classics play poetry challenging dark tense medium-paced
The Metamorphosis of Plants (The MIT Press) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, MIT Press by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Metamorphosis of Plants (The MIT Press) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, MIT Press

Mit Press

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

56 pages • first pub 1798 (editions)

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nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced