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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend

The Neapolitan Novels #1

Elena Ferrante

331 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

536 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
fiction crime historical mystery challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

656 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction history politics science challenging informative tense slow-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

538 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

192 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
fiction historical literary short stories challenging informative reflective medium-paced
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

Sara Hendren

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction nature technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Katherine Eban

512 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction business health true crime informative medium-paced
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Robert A. Caro

231 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction biography memoir informative slow-paced
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem

Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu

399 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced