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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove #1

Larry McMurtry

960 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
fiction classics historical literary adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
American Tabloid by James Ellroy

American Tabloid

Underworld USA #1

James Ellroy

592 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
fiction crime historical mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

388 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
nonfiction history true crime dark informative medium-paced
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

394 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
fiction classics contemporary challenging funny medium-paced
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

241 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction dark emotional sad slow-paced
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

302 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
fiction classics literary dark funny reflective medium-paced
White Noise by Don DeLillo

White Noise

Don DeLillo

320 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
fiction classics literary dark funny reflective slow-paced
Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore by Dan Ozzi

Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore

Dan Ozzi

416 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
nonfiction music informative reflective medium-paced
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition)

Anthony Bourdain

312 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

316 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0maplesurple's review
nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced