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29 books

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

606 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, with a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner by Alexander R. Luria, Jerome Bruner

The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, with a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner

Alexander R. Luria, Jerome Bruner

192 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

314 pages • first pub 1855 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
fiction classics poetry inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

78 pages • first pub 1839 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

The Dark Forest

Remembrance of Earth's Past #2

Cixin Liu

512 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Elmet by Fiona Mozley

Elmet

Fiona Mozley

311 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
fiction contemporary literary dark emotional tense medium-paced
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

480 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

270 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0nebbit's review
nonfiction history politics race informative reflective medium-paced