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What Is the What by Dave Eggers

What Is the What

Dave Eggers

475 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
fiction historical emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer

The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

Peter Singer

206 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Catch-22 #1

Joseph Heller

453 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
fiction classics historical literary dark funny slow-paced
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

204 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
fiction classics adventurous dark funny fast-paced
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

256 pages • first pub 1927 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
fiction classics philosophy challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes #1

Bill Watterson

127 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
fiction comics adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

David Foster Wallace

273 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo

320 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction economics challenging informative slow-paced
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire by Noam Chomsky

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

Noam Chomsky

211 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective fast-paced
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

777 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced