Telma Costa

20 books

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

Despair

Vladimir Nabokov

176 pages • first pub 1934 (editions)

fiction classics dark funny reflective slow-paced
Experience: A Memoir by Martin Amis

Experience: A Memoir

Martin Amis

432 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir reflective slow-paced
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux

Figures in a Landscape: People and Places

Paul Theroux

416 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography essays travel reflective slow-paced
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

The Flamethrowers

Rachel Kushner

383 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction historical literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion

Ford Madox Ford

352 pages • first pub 1915 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It by Marc Bloch

The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It

Marc Bloch

224 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative slow-paced
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel

A History of Civilizations

Fernand Braudel

640 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

Martin Amis

306 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative reflective slow-paced
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

Laughter in the Dark

Vladimir Nabokov

199 pages • first pub 1932 (editions)

fiction classics literary funny sad medium-paced
On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald

On the Natural History of Destruction

W.G. Sebald

205 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction essays history challenging informative reflective slow-paced