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Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

227 pages • first pub 1938 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
fiction classics philosophy challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

Dolly Alderton

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
nonfiction memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet

Penguin Little Black Classics #103

Rainer Maria Rilke

52 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
nonfiction classics essays poetry inspiring reflective fast-paced
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy

The Cost of Living

Living Autobiography #2

Deborah Levy

187 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
nonfiction essays feminism memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
The Trouble with Being Born by E.M. Cioran

The Trouble with Being Born

E.M. Cioran

212 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
nonfiction philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars

Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live

John Sellars

96 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
nonfiction philosophy informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

720 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

138 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
nonfiction classics essays feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Just Kids by Patti Smith

Just Kids

Patti Smith

306 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
nonfiction art literary memoir music emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

The Course of Love

Alain de Botton

222 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0wailko's review
fiction philosophy psychology romance reflective medium-paced