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Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

Fresh Water for Flowers

Valérie Perrin

14 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0srm's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Summer Book

Tove Jansson

4 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 1972 (editions)

5.0srm's review
fiction classics literary lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies

Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39

Florian Illies

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

5.0srm's review
nonfiction biography history informative reflective medium-paced
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley in Search of America

John Steinbeck

7 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 1962 (editions)

5.0srm's review
nonfiction classics memoir travel reflective slow-paced
Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø

Killing Moon

Harry Hole #13

Jo Nesbø

503 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

5.0srm's review
fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

Buddy Levy

400 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0srm's review
nonfiction history medium-paced
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read

11 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0srm's review
nonfiction history adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexiévich

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Voices of Utopia #1

Svetlana Alexiévich

14 hours, 19 minutes • first pub 1983 (editions)

5.0srm's review
nonfiction feminism history dark emotional sad medium-paced
Priest of Crowns by Peter McLean

Priest of Crowns

War for the Rose Throne #4

Peter McLean

418 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0srm's review
fiction fantasy dark emotional tense medium-paced
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie

The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

Tore Skeie

400 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0srm's review
nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced