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White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 hour, 55 minutes • first pub 1848 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
fiction classics romance emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition)

Anthony Bourdain

312 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

546 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
fiction contemporary literary magical realism emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Lifespan: Why We Age--And Why We Don't Have to by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. Laplante

Lifespan: Why We Age--And Why We Don't Have to

David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. Laplante

432 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
nonfiction health science reflective slow-paced
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

179 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
nonfiction memoir inspiring reflective medium-paced
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

337 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
Ensayo sobre la ceguera by José Saramago

Ensayo sobre la ceguera

Blindness #1

José Saramago

416 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
fiction dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
El libro de los amores ridículos by Milan Kundera

El libro de los amores ridículos

Milan Kundera

318 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
fiction short stories reflective slow-paced
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

418 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
fiction contemporary literary magical realism emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom

304 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

5.0karenmariscalo's review
nonfiction essays psychology reflective slow-paced