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Blindness by José Saramago

Blindness

Blindness #1

José Saramago

352 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0jjupille's review
fiction dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

172 pages • first pub 1903 (editions)

5.0jjupille's review
fiction classics adventurous emotional medium-paced
Misery by Stephen King

Misery

Stephen King

370 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0jjupille's review
fiction horror mystery thriller dark tense medium-paced
The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

512 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0jjupille's review
nonfiction classics history challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson

224 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

5.0jjupille's review
nonfiction history politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

106 pages • first pub 1910 (editions)

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fiction classics reflective slow-paced
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics by Robert C. Hunter, David G. Dodd

The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

Robert C. Hunter, David G. Dodd

480 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0jjupille's review
nonfiction music poetry reference informative reflective medium-paced
You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates by Sam Cutler

You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates

Sam Cutler

326 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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nonfiction biography memoir music emotional informative sad slow-paced
Bluegrass: A History by Neil V. Rosenberg

Bluegrass: A History

Neil V. Rosenberg

512 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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nonfiction history music informative slow-paced
Theories of Political Economy by James A. Caporaso

Theories of Political Economy

James A. Caporaso

256 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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nonfiction economics philosophy challenging informative slow-paced