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King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

376 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

314 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative sad medium-paced
Sengoku Jidai. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu: Three Unifiers of Japan by Danny Chaplin

Sengoku Jidai. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu: Three Unifiers of Japan

Danny Chaplin

640 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney

Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great

Women of the Ancient World

Elizabeth Carney

221 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World by Honor Cargill-Martin

Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World

Honor Cargill-Martin

368 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

524 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

Susan Williams

849 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative sad slow-paced
How I Became a Nun by César Aira

How I Became a Nun

César Aira

117 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction literary dark reflective slow-paced
Cesta do záhuby by Erich Kästner

Cesta do záhuby

Erich Kästner

256 pages • first pub 1931 (editions) user-added

fiction classics reflective medium-paced
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

Roy Scranton

144 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging reflective slow-paced