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theayeaye Host

16 participants (110 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

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History, memoirs, essays and academic texts — let's understand our world and times a little better. 

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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

Natasha Dow Schüll

442 pages • 2012 • 6 editions

nonfiction design psychology science sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky

Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema

Andrei Tarkovsky

254 pages • 1984 • 22 editions

nonfiction art philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

272 pages • 2013 • 23 editions

nonfiction memoir race emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Saidiya Hartman

462 pages • 2019 • 17 editions

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This Is Our Territory by Doug Williams

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This Is Our Territory

Doug Williams

168 pages • 2018 • 3 editions

nonfiction biography informative reflective medium-paced
Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

168 pages • 2011 • 3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

282 pages • 2014 • 61 editions

nonfiction health memoir science sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

Susan Quinn

404 pages • 2016 • 7 editions

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nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ emotional informative slow-paced
The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass by Wade Davis

The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass

Wade Davis

160 pages • 2011 • 3 editions

nonfiction nature informative medium-paced
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

208 pages • 2022 • 13 editions

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective medium-paced