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Babel by R.F. Kuang

Babel

R.F. Kuang

544 pages • 2022 • 117 editions

fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

482 pages • 2020 • 111 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

336 pages • 2021 • 18 editions

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

296 pages • 2023 • 17 editions

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Jake Bittle

320 pages • 2023 • 6 editions

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Palace of Illusions

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

360 pages • 2008 • 32 editions

fiction fantasy literary adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes

368 pages • 2019 • 47 editions

fiction historical literary adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides

410 pages • 2014 • 16 editions

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

Laura Spinney

332 pages • 2017 • 24 editions

nonfiction history science reflective medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

The Dead Djinn Universe #1

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark

392 pages • 2021 • 37 editions

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review