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37 books

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 by Daniel Handler

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014

The Best American Nonrequired Reading #2014

Daniel Handler

393 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction essays short stories challenging reflective fast-paced
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

351 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction historical literary challenging dark slow-paced
The Four Pillars of Geometry by John Stillwell

The Four Pillars of Geometry

John Stillwell

227 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

Poor Things

Alasdair Gray

317 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark funny medium-paced
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

432 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative medium-paced
The Tempest: A Norton Critical Edition by William H. Sherman, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Peter Hulme
The Tempest: A Norton Critical Edition
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William H. Sherman, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Peter Hulme

The Tempest: A Norton Critical Edition

William H. Sherman, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Peter Hulme

355 pages • first pub 1611 (editions)

challenging funny reflective slow-paced
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by Alex Hortis

The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

Alex Hortis

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime medium-paced
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians by Ian Stewart

Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

Ian Stewart

320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history mathematics informative slow-paced
Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World by Gillian Gill

Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World

Gillian Gill

432 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

Lyndall Gordon

491 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history poetry reflective slow-paced