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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

209 pages • hardcover • 2024

4.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

Ai Weiwei

400 pages • hardcover • 2021

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction memoir challenging dark reflective medium-paced
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen

562 pages • hardcover • 2023

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction memoir psychology informative reflective sad medium-paced
The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin

The Long Shadow

Celia Fremlin

249 pages • paperback • 1975

3.0wahistorian's review
fiction crime mystery mysterious slow-paced
Purple Crayons: The Art of Drawing a Life by Ross Ellenhorn

Purple Crayons: The Art of Drawing a Life

Ross Ellenhorn

224 pages • hardcover

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction philosophy self help
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin

The Blizzard

Vladimir Sorokin

181 pages • hardcover • 2010

3.0wahistorian's review
fiction fantasy dark reflective slow-paced
Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin

Uncle Paul

Celia Fremlin

249 pages • paperback • 1960

3.0wahistorian's review
fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Philip Gefter

363 pages • hardcover • 2024

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history memoir informative reflective medium-paced
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

Gaito Gazdanov

192 pages • paperback • 1947

3.0wahistorian's review
fiction classics reflective medium-paced
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov

The Twelve Chairs

Ostap Bender #1

Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov

546 pages • paperback • 1928

4.0wahistorian's review
fiction classics adventurous funny medium-paced