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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

We Hunt the Flame

Sands of Arawiya #1

Hafsah Faizal

472 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito

Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu

Junji Ito

120 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
nonfiction manga memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Babel by R.F. Kuang

Babel

R.F. Kuang

556 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

Go Ask Alice

Beatrice Sparks

214 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
fiction young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Doggie in the Window: How One Dog Led Me from the Pet Store to the Factory Farm to Uncover the Truth of Where Puppies Really Come from by Rory Kress

The Doggie in the Window: How One Dog Led Me from the Pet Store to the Factory Farm to Uncover the Truth of Where Puppies Really Come from

Rory Kress

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
nonfiction emotional slow-paced
Forty Studies That Changed Psychology: Explorations Into the History of Psychological Research by Roger R. Hock

Forty Studies That Changed Psychology: Explorations Into the History of Psychological Research

Roger R. Hock

329 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
nonfiction psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment by Jill A. McCorkel

Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment

Jill A. McCorkel

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
nonfiction sociology challenging informative medium-paced
The Magician by Sol Stein

The Magician

Sol Stein

missing duration info • first pub 1971 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
fiction crime informative fast-paced
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

370 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0josiebrown's review
fiction historical literary mystery emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced