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The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon

The Pillow Book

Sei Shōnagon

395 pages • first pub 1002 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
nonfiction classics history informative lighthearted reflective slow-paced
Shakespeare Our Contemporary by Jan Kott

Shakespeare Our Contemporary

Jan Kott

400 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
nonfiction reflective slow-paced
Marxist Study of Shakespeare's Comedies by Elliot Krieger

Marxist Study of Shakespeare's Comedies

Elliot Krieger

181 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
informative medium-paced
The Poems: Venus and Adonis, the Rape of Lucrece, the Phoenix and the Turtle, the Passionate Pilgrim, a Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare

The Poems: Venus and Adonis, the Rape of Lucrece, the Phoenix and the Turtle, the Passionate Pilgrim, a Lover's Complaint

William Shakespeare

326 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
fiction classics poetry challenging informative slow-paced
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Oscar Wilde

464 pages • first pub 1898 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
fiction classics play funny reflective medium-paced
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall

224 pages • first pub 1886 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious medium-paced
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

207 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
nonfiction biography travel adventurous reflective sad medium-paced
James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories by James Baldwin

James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories

Library of America #97

James Baldwin

970 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
fiction classics short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Everyman's Library) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass

Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Everyman's Library)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass

480 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
fiction emotional slow-paced
The Girl Before by JP Delaney

The Girl Before

JP Delaney

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0dauen's review
fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced