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The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

230 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction contemporary historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

304 pages • first pub 1594 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction classics play funny fast-paced
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov

185 pages • first pub 1840 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

257 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction play dark emotional tense fast-paced
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Complete Persepolis

Persepolis #1-4

Marjane Satrapi

341 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
nonfiction graphic novel memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

Daughter of the Forest

Sevenwaters #1

Juliet Marillier

669 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark emotional slow-paced
Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier

Son of the Shadows

Sevenwaters #2

Juliet Marillier

608 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction fantasy historical romance adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology Of Autobiographical Narratives By Twentieth Century American Women Writers by Susan Cahill, Maureen Howard, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Ellen Glasgow, Beverly Donofrio, Natalie Kusz, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joyce Johnson, Louise Bogan, Sandra Cisneros, Lillian Hellman, Jane Addams, Mary McCarthy, Tillie Olsen, May Sarton, Hortense Calisher, Patricia Hampl, Audre Lorde, Ann Cornelisen, Dorothy Allison, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Vivian Gornick, Edith Wharton, M.F.K. Fisher, Jane O'Reilly, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Denise Levertov, bell hooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Bebe Moore Campbell, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Mary Crow Dog, Kate Millett, Mary Mebane, Diane Glancy, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Eileen Simpson, Madeleine L'Engle, Mary Antin, Maya Angelou, Dorothy Day, Lorene Cary, Nancy Mairs, Jamaica Kincaid, Nikki Giovanni, Shirley Abbott, Eudora Welty, Lucille Clifton, Kate Simon

Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology Of Autobiographical Narratives By Twentieth Century American Women Writers

Susan Cahill, Maureen Howard, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Ellen Glasgow, Beverly Donofrio, Natalie Kusz, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joyce Johnson, Louise Bogan, Sandra Cisneros, Lillian Hellman, Jane Addams, Mary McCarthy, Tillie Olsen, May Sarton, Hortense Calisher, Patricia Hampl, Audre Lorde, Ann Cornelisen, Dorothy Allison, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Vivian Gornick, Edith Wharton, M.F.K. Fisher, Jane O'Reilly, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Denise Levertov, bell hooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Bebe Moore Campbell, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Mary Crow Dog, Kate Millett, Mary Mebane, Diane Glancy, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Eileen Simpson, Madeleine L'Engle, Mary Antin, Maya Angelou, Dorothy Day, Lorene Cary, Nancy Mairs, Jamaica Kincaid, Nikki Giovanni, Shirley Abbott, Eudora Welty, Lucille Clifton, Kate Simon

509 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
nonfiction biography feminism informative reflective slow-paced
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth

House of Earth #1

Pearl S. Buck

418 pages • first pub 1931 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
fiction historical emotional informative sad medium-paced
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

608 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0lenachka's review
nonfiction biography history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced