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236 books

Silence Is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar

Silence Is a Sense

Layla AlAmmar

301 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
fiction literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans by Erica Harth

Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

Erica Harth

320 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction historical history emotional reflective slow-paced
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

496 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth #1

N.K. Jemisin

15 hours, 27 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton

Night Wherever We Go

Tracey Rose Peyton

295 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
fiction historical emotional medium-paced
Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952 by Rochelle Chadakoff
Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952
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Rochelle Chadakoff

Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952

Rochelle Chadakoff

402 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
informative reflective medium-paced
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: Secret History of the Far North by Lael Morgan

Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: Secret History of the Far North

Lael Morgan

352 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Welcome to Night Vale

Welcome to Night Vale #1

Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

401 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Behind Blue Curtains: A True Crime Memoir of an Amish Woman's Survival, Escape, and Pursuit of Justice by Lizzy Hershberger, Molly Eagan

Behind Blue Curtains: A True Crime Memoir of an Amish Woman's Survival, Escape, and Pursuit of Justice

Lizzy Hershberger, Molly Eagan

136 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction autobiography true crime challenging emotional reflective medium-paced