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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
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
Call Me a Cab by Donald E. Westlake

Call Me a Cab

Donald E. Westlake

256 pages • paperback • 2022

5.0wahistorian's review
fiction thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer

Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

Stephen Breyer

368 pages • hardcover • 2024

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany by Monica Black

A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

Monica Black

352 pages • hardcover • 2020

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced
What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada

What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

Carlos Lozada

272 pages • hardcover • 2020

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history literary politics informative reflective slow-paced
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe Nors

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Dorthe Nors

238 pages • paperback • 2022

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction essays nature travel informative reflective medium-paced
Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Sophie's Choice

William Styron

576 pages • paperback • 1979

5.0wahistorian's review
fiction classics dark emotional sad slow-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