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29 books

Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman

Daemon Voices

Philip Pullman

480 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction essays informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood

The Book That Matters Most

Ann Hood

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction contemporary medium-paced
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

A Discovery of Witches

All Souls #1

Deborah Harkness

579 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction fantasy romance thriller adventurous mysterious slow-paced
The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday by Sharon Blackie

The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday

Sharon Blackie

314 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction nature self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pi E Is Not the Answer by Jen Lancaster

Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pi E Is Not the Answer

Jen Lancaster

379 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction memoir funny fast-paced
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) #1

Baroness Orczy

288 pages • first pub 1905 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction classics historical adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom

Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

Philipp Blom

352 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction history nature science challenging informative slow-paced
Democracy by Joan Didion

Democracy

Joan Didion

240 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction historical reflective slow-paced
Kallocain by Karin Boye

Kallocain

Karin Boye

193 pages • first pub 1940 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction classics dystopian science fiction dark reflective slow-paced
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

272 pages • first pub 1928 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced