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21 books

Help Wanted: A Novel by Adelle Waldman

Help Wanted: A Novel

Adelle Waldman

276 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary medium-paced
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Taylor Lorenz

373 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction sociology technology informative medium-paced
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis

How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

KC Davis

151 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction self help hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction education race challenging informative sad medium-paced
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Long Island Compromise

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

444 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

640 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Adelle Waldman

256 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary romance reflective slow-paced
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

Rachel Sherman

328 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective medium-paced
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith

Worthy

Jada Pinkett Smith

405 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced