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Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

Bowlaway

Elizabeth McCracken

384 pages • 2019 • 12 editions

fiction historical reflective slow-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Alexis Okeowo

272 pages • 2017 • 7 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon

241 pages • 2018 • 17 editions

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
Severance by Ling Ma

Severance

Ling Ma

291 pages • 2018 • 22 editions

fiction dystopian literary dark reflective medium-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

358 pages • 1997 • 78 editions

nonfiction memoir sports travel adventurous sad tense medium-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bossypants

Tina Fey

277 pages • 2011 • 23 editions

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

Ron Stallworth

224 pages • 2014 • 16 editions

nonfiction memoir true crime informative reflective slow-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Friday Black

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

194 pages • 2018 • 20 editions

fiction horror short stories speculative fiction challenging dark medium-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

422 pages • 2016 • 29 editions

nonfiction politics sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
5.0 afbaird's review
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

560 pages • 2018 • 51 editions

nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
5.0 afbaird's review