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Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker

Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

Bianca Bosker

346 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
nonfiction memoir informative lighthearted medium-paced
First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power by Kate Andersen Brower

First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power

Kate Andersen Brower

352 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Power

Naomi Alderman

341 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
fiction dystopian literary dark tense medium-paced
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen

Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

Annie Jacobsen

544 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Pete Buttigieg

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
nonfiction biography memoir politics reflective slow-paced
The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren

The Front Runner

Harlan's Story #1

Patricia Nell Warren

320 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
fiction lgbtqia+ romance emotional reflective medium-paced
Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Old Man's War

Old Man's War #1

John Scalzi

332 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
fiction science fiction adventurous funny fast-paced
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin

352 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
fiction contemporary historical magical realism dark reflective sad medium-paced
The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis by Richard Schwartz

The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis

Richard Schwartz

332 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0sffish1974's review
informative lighthearted medium-paced
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

432 pages • first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

5.0sffish1974's review
fiction contemporary historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced