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The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time by Brooke Gladstone

The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time

Brooke Gladstone

96 pages • 2017 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays philosophy politics challenging reflective fast-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

316 pages • 2017 • 106 editions

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

Monica Hesse

288 pages • 2017 • 9 editions

nonfiction mystery true crime informative mysterious medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

368 pages • 2016 • 16 editions

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941 by Stephen Kotkin

Stalin #2

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941

Stephen Kotkin

1184 pages • 2017 • 5 editions

nonfiction biography history dark informative tense slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

Nina Riggs

310 pages • 2017 • 11 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris

Diaries #1

Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

David Sedaris

515 pages • 2017 • 19 editions

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence

Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life

Annie Spence

256 pages • 2017 • 16 editions

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker

13h 51m • 2017 • 95 editions

nonfiction health science informative medium-paced
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Broken Monsters

Lauren Beukes

464 pages • 2014 • 24 editions

fiction horror mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review