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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

215 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0eengland's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed #2

Octavia E. Butler

416 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0eengland's review
fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0eengland's review
fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Millennium #3

Stieg Larsson

820 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0eengland's review
fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan

Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

Marion A. Kaplan

304 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0eengland's review
nonfiction history informative inspiring medium-paced
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Christopher R. Browning

271 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0eengland's review
nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy by Mary L. Dudziak

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

Mary L. Dudziak

360 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0eengland's review
nonfiction history race challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past by Edward Tabor Linenthal

History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past

Edward Tabor Linenthal

295 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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nonfiction history
Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory by

Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Ira Berlin

512 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0eengland's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced