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The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

96 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

fiction literary dark reflective sad medium-paced
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine by Joan Peters

From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine

Joan Peters

601 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud by David Dayen

Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

David Dayen

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics informative medium-paced
WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program by Pete Earley

WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program

Pete Earley

359 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime informative slow-paced
The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency by Robert Scaer

The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency

Robert Scaer

328 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

The Bird King

G. Willow Wilson

440 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous emotional medium-paced
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

John Erskine

304 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

fiction historical challenging reflective slow-paced
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

368 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history race dark informative sad medium-paced
The Secret Places of the Heart by H.G. Wells

The Secret Places of the Heart

H.G. Wells

296 pages • first pub 1922 (editions)

fiction classics challenging informative slow-paced
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Daniel Okrent

468 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics adventurous medium-paced
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

Karen Ho

374 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction economics informative slow-paced
The Street by Ann Petry

The Street

Ann Petry

436 pages • first pub 1946 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

107 pages • first pub 1947 (editions)

fiction classics play dark emotional tense fast-paced
Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis

Live Alone and Like It

Marjorie Hillis

154 pages • first pub 1936 (editions)

nonfiction feminism self help funny lighthearted fast-paced