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Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen

Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

The Copenhagen Trilogy #1-3

Tove Ditlevsen

370 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Christina Lamb

384 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
nonfiction feminism history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

255 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
fiction literary science fiction adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

513 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns

Kerry Hudson

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir politics challenging emotional sad medium-paced
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Philip Gourevitch

356 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

602 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

321 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative sad medium-paced
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

275 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
fiction classics historical literary science fiction dark funny reflective medium-paced
Sorrow & Bliss by Meg Mason

Sorrow & Bliss

Meg Mason

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0sgwillym's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced