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Everything They Taught Me by Alexis J. Jacobs

Everything They Taught Me

Alexis J. Jacobs

100 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

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fiction poetry
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

104 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0abysm0's review
fiction literary magical realism dark reflective sad fast-paced
Everyday Speech by Maurice Blanchot
Everyday Speech
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Maurice Blanchot

Everyday Speech

Maurice Blanchot

8 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

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nonfiction essays philosophy
Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

429 pages • first pub 1601 (editions)

5.0abysm0's review
fiction classics play dark tense medium-paced
1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

336 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

5.0abysm0's review
fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Stranger

Albert Camus

123 pages • first pub 1942 (editions)

5.0abysm0's review
fiction classics literary dark reflective medium-paced
Suicide by Édouard Levé

Suicide

Édouard Levé

128 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0abysm0's review
fiction literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Letters from a Stoic

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

254 pages • first pub 64 (editions)

5.0abysm0's review
nonfiction classics history philosophy informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

Sarah Bakewell

449 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0abysm0's review
nonfiction biography history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens

A Brief History Series #1

Yuval Noah Harari

464 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0abysm0's review
nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced