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El péndulo de Foucault by Umberto Eco, Ricardo Pochtar

El péndulo de Foucault

Umberto Eco, Ricardo Pochtar

585 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

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fiction historical mystery challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
How Fiction Works by James Wood

How Fiction Works

James Wood

288 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

4.0shiradest's review
nonfiction reference challenging reflective slow-paced
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Toni Morrison

368 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0shiradest's review
nonfiction essays feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises by James Scott Bell

The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises

James Scott Bell

263 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0shiradest's review
nonfiction reference informative reflective fast-paced
American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global by John T. McGreevy

American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

John T. McGreevy

328 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

3.0shiradest's review
history religion informative reflective slow-paced
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter #1

J.K. Rowling

246 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0shiradest's review
fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming

Michelle Obama

448 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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nonfiction memoir politics hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A Promised Land

The Presidential Memoirs #1

Barack Obama

1136 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.0shiradest's review
nonfiction memoir politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco

The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

Andrew Delbanco

453 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0shiradest's review
nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Cathy Williams: From Slave to Buffalo Soldier by Phillip Thomas Tucker

Cathy Williams: From Slave to Buffalo Soldier

Phillip Thomas Tucker

258 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

3.0shiradest's review
nonfiction emotional informative reflective medium-paced