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A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Closed and Common Orbit

Wayfarers #2

Becky Chambers

365 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0jmsr418's review
fiction science fiction adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

496 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

5.0jmsr418's review
nonfiction autobiography history informative reflective medium-paced
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

185 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0jmsr418's review
nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A Promised Land

The Presidential Memoirs #1

Barack Obama

768 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0jmsr418's review
nonfiction memoir politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

331 pages • first pub 1911 (editions)

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fiction classics middle grade hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The House in the Cerulean Sea

Cerulean Chronicles #1

TJ Klune

338 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0jmsr418's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

Valarie Kaur

416 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0jmsr418's review
nonfiction memoir philosophy politics emotional reflective slow-paced
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

317 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

5.0jmsr418's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

535 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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nonfiction biography business health history true crime dark informative medium-paced
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel James Brown

404 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0jmsr418's review
nonfiction biography history sports emotional informative inspiring medium-paced