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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

642 pages • hardcover • 2005

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fiction fantasy mystery mysterious slow-paced
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

M.T. Anderson

464 pages • hardcover • 2015

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nonfiction biography history dark informative sad medium-paced
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! a Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton

Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! a Vagrant Collection

Hark! A Vagrant #2

Kate Beaton

166 pages • hardcover • 2015

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fiction comics historical funny lighthearted fast-paced
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

354 pages • hardcover • 1782

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fiction classics literary dark slow-paced
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexiévich

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Voices of Utopia #4

Svetlana Alexiévich

236 pages • paperback • 1997

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nonfiction history science dark emotional sad medium-paced
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

Anya's Ghost

Vera Brosgol

221 pages • hardcover • 2011

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fiction graphic novel horror young adult dark mysterious fast-paced
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Rebecca Traister

339 pages • hardcover • 2016

5.0xennicole's review
nonfiction feminism history politics reflective slow-paced
Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion by Susan Jacoby

Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion

Susan Jacoby

512 pages • hardcover • 2016

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nonfiction history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin

Forty Rooms

Olga Grushin

352 pages • hardcover • 2016

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fiction literary short stories emotional reflective slow-paced
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

216 pages • digital • 1963

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fiction classics literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced