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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #1

Erich Maria Remarque

304 pages • first pub 1928 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
fiction classics historical dark emotional sad medium-paced
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Maus #2

Art Spiegelman

136 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
nonfiction comics graphic novel history memoir dark emotional sad fast-paced
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

309 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
fiction classics historical emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

112 pages • first pub 1925 (editions) user-added

5.0birdley's review
fiction classics literary romance reflective medium-paced
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

Cousin Bette

La Comédie Humaine #56

Honoré de Balzac

496 pages • first pub 1846 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
fiction classics dark reflective medium-paced
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

246 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
fiction historical short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Cathedral

Raymond Carver

228 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
fiction classics short stories emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Where I'm Calling from by Raymond Carver

Where I'm Calling from

Raymond Carver

526 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
fiction classics short stories emotional reflective slow-paced
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

704 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor

264 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

5.0birdley's review
fiction classics short stories challenging dark fast-paced