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The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

The Lottery and Other Stories

Shirley Jackson

302 pages • first pub 1948 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass

His Dark Materials #1

Philip Pullman

416 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous mysterious medium-paced
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

360 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
fiction classics contemporary challenging funny medium-paced
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

850 pages • first pub 1849 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
fiction classics horror poetry dark tense medium-paced
Lisey's Story by Stephen King

Lisey's Story

Stephen King

528 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
fiction horror dark emotional tense slow-paced
Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

476 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
nonfiction business economics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Malcolm Gladwell

13 hours • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
nonfiction business essays psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

7 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
nonfiction business psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

319 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
nonfiction science funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman

13 hours, 37 minutes • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0amandajinut's review
nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced