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164 books

Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed

Every Rising Sun

Jamila Ahmed

432 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
fiction historical literary adventurous emotional medium-paced
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride

385 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
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Ronen Bergman

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Ronen Bergman

760 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative tense slow-paced
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

A Study in Drowning

A Study In Drowning #1

Ava Reid

378 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
fiction fantasy young adult dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

304 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
nonfiction business psychology informative reflective fast-paced
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

272 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
nonfiction essays memoir funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

532 pages • first pub 1847 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
fiction classics literary romance dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

299 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Ninetenth-Century New York by Patricia Cline Cohen

The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Ninetenth-Century New York

Patricia Cline Cohen

512 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
nonfiction crime history true crime mysterious medium-paced
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

336 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

5.0mahalar's review
nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced