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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

333 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction nature science informative inspiring medium-paced
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993

Sarah Schulman

736 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Jack Lowery

422 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages by Janina Ramírez

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages

Janina Ramírez

447 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction feminism history challenging informative medium-paced
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Alice Roberts

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Alice Roberts

352 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

246 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction feminism politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

274 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
fiction crime literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Sappho

397 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction classics lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective fast-paced
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America by Unknown, Magnus Magnusson, Hermann Pálsson

The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America

Íslendingasögur/Sagas of Icelanders

Unknown, Magnus Magnusson, Hermann Pálsson

128 pages • first pub 1220 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction classics historical history adventurous reflective slow-paced
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

A Day of Fallen Night

The Roots of Chaos #0

Samantha Shannon

868 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional tense medium-paced