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The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

451 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

310 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

13 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
fiction historical literary emotional informative sad medium-paced
The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

The Actual Star

Monica Byrne

19 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
fiction science fiction speculative fiction adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed #2

Octavia E. Butler

390 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

8 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

382 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
nonfiction essays memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Animals and Capital by Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

Animals and Capital

Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

328 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
nonfiction
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
fiction classics dystopian literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

312 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

5.0soniaturcotte's review
nonfiction reference informative reflective slow-paced