Denise Bottmann

45 books

Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Susan Sontag

336 pages • paperback • 1966

nonfiction art essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Amanda Palmer

352 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction memoir music inspiring reflective slow-paced
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

Sarah Bakewell

448 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction biography history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

496 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said

Culture and Imperialism

Edward W. Said

380 pages • paperback • 1993

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

63 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction essays feminism informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Rem Koolhaas

320 pages • 1978

nonfiction art challenging reflective slow-paced
Girl in the Dark: A Memoir of a Life Without Light by Anna Lyndsey

Girl in the Dark: A Memoir of a Life Without Light

Anna Lyndsey

272 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Godfather

The Godfather #1

Mario Puzo

595 pages • paperback • 1969

fiction classics crime thriller dark tense medium-paced
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright

430 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction history religion challenging dark slow-paced