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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Patrick Sandford

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Patrick Sandford

312 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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fiction horror play science fiction
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexiévich

The Unwomanly Face of War

Voices of Utopia #1

Svetlana Alexiévich

372 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

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nonfiction history dark emotional sad medium-paced
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Müller

What Is Populism?

Jan-Werner Müller

136 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson

675 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

367 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

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nonfiction essays history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism by Casper W. Erichsen, David Olusoga

The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism

Casper W. Erichsen, David Olusoga

400 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation by Kishore Mahbubani

Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation

Kishore Mahbubani

112 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions

Valeria Luiselli

119 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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nonfiction essays politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

312 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced