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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Elinor Cleghorn

14 hours, 8 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction feminism health history challenging informative medium-paced
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

Lindsey Fitzharris

8 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction history dark slow-paced
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Riley Black

Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone

Riley Black

7 hours • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Later by Stephen King

Later

Stephen King

264 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0fictionalalex's review
fiction horror mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

288 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A Promised Land

The Presidential Memoirs #1

Barack Obama

768 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction memoir politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Jane Austen and Her World by Josephine Ross

Jane Austen and Her World

Josephine Ross

120 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction autobiography biography literary medium-paced
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

52 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction essays feminism informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

Richard Lloyd Parry

276 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0fictionalalex's review
nonfiction history informative reflective sad slow-paced