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Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs by Bill Cunningham

Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs

Bill Cunningham

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography memoir lighthearted slow-paced
It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics by Francesca Polletta

It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

Francesca Polletta

256 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history politics sociology informative reflective slow-paced
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century by Margaret Talbot

The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century

Margaret Talbot

418 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography history memoir informative medium-paced
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Timothy Egan

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

352 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction historical history challenging informative slow-paced
Picture by Lillian Ross

Picture

Lillian Ross

288 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction informative slow-paced
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

The Postman Always Rings Twice

James M. Cain

116 pages • first pub 1934 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
fiction classics mystery dark mysterious fast-paced
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America by Allyson Hobbs

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America

Allyson Hobbs

382 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

Orlando Figes

592 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography history music informative medium-paced
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child by Laura Cumming

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Laura Cumming

320 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography memoir true crime emotional reflective slow-paced
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

240 pages • first pub 1897 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
fiction classics historical play reflective fast-paced