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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson

The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

Marilyn Johnson

252 pages • 2006 • 5 editions

nonfiction history funny fast-paced
3.0 violetfox's review
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Daniel Tammet

226 pages • 2006 • 26 editions

nonfiction biography memoir psychology emotional informative reflective slow-paced
4.0 violetfox's review
Magnificent Corpses: Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Claire's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand, and Other Saintly Relics by Anneli Rufus

Magnificent Corpses: Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Claire's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand, and Other Saintly Relics

Anneli Rufus

245 pages • 1999 • 1 edition

nonfiction history religion travel informative reflective slow-paced
2.0 violetfox's review
Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff

Don't Get Too Comfortable

David Rakoff

222 pages • 2005 • 10 editions

nonfiction essays memoir funny reflective fast-paced
3.0 violetfox's review
The Red Sphinx, or, The Comte de Moret: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The D'Artagnan Romances #1.5

The Red Sphinx, or, The Comte de Moret: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

832 pages • 1866 • 19 editions

fiction classics historical adventurous emotional medium-paced
4.0 violetfox's review
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks' memoirs #1

Uncle Tungsten

Oliver Sacks

337 pages • 2001 • 28 editions

nonfiction biography memoir science challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
3.0 violetfox's review
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

John Kelly

400 pages • 2005 • 15 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
4.0 violetfox's review
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

584 pages • 1866 • 1.2k editions

fiction classics crime literary dark reflective tense slow-paced
3.0 violetfox's review
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

Joshua Wolf Shenk

368 pages • 2005 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography history psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
5.0 violetfox's review
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks

342 pages • 2006 • 92 editions

fiction horror science fiction adventurous dark tense medium-paced
4.0 violetfox's review