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22 books

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

Amy Tan

416 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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nonfiction memoir informative reflective slow-paced
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

227 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

720 pages • first pub 1924 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

464 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

David Abram

368 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction nature philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Alan Watts

163 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction philosophy psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Replay by Ken Grimwood

Replay

Ken Grimwood

320 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction science fiction adventurous reflective medium-paced
Wuthering Heights: barnes and noble classics by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights: barnes and noble classics

Emily Brontë

438 pages • first pub 1847 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction classics literary romance dark emotional slow-paced
The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams by William McGuire, C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull

The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

William McGuire, C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull

144 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

448 pages • first pub 1878 (editions)

5.0desertmichelle's review
fiction classics reflective slow-paced