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153 books

The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom by Joan Halifax

The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

Joan Halifax

272 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery by Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

Solomon Northup

199 pages • first pub 1853 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
nonfiction classics history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain

320 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me by Ana Castillo

Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me

Ana Castillo

350 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

Notes from a Small Island #2

Bill Bryson

400 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
nonfiction memoir travel adventurous funny reflective medium-paced
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

Flannery O'Connor

269 pages • first pub 1964 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
fiction classics short stories dark reflective medium-paced
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Margaret Atwood

273 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
fiction literary short stories challenging dark medium-paced
Stories by T.C. Boyle

Stories

T.C. Boyle

704 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
fiction short stories reflective slow-paced
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Betty Edwards

320 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
nonfiction art reference informative inspiring medium-paced
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

236 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0mindtravelagent's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced