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The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. Chambers

dark fast-paced

3.25

Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster by James R. Hansen, Allan J. McDonald

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This book spends A LOT of time unravelling the details of the Challenger accident, including business and political events that occurred well before January 1986. This isn't a book you want to read as an introduction to or overview of the disaster. Only venture here if you are highly interested in the court proceedings, engineering meeting minutes, and other minutiae of this event in aerospace history.

In a Flight of Starlings by Giorgio Parisi

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informative inspiring fast-paced

3.5

Sunless Solstice. Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights by British Library

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adventurous dark medium-paced

3.75

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli

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informative medium-paced

2.25

Quite repetitive and uses ellipses too liberally. Physics concepts are intentionally presented with minimal rigor. The author's commentary is not always clearly distinct from canonical paradigms.

What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced