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Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

296 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

March: Book Three

March #3

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

256 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
nonfiction graphic novel history memoir informative reflective medium-paced
March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

March: Book Two

March #2

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

192 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
nonfiction graphic novel history memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Cordelia Fine

367 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
nonfiction gender psychology science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

535 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
nonfiction biography business history true crime dark informative medium-paced
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Shadow of the Wind

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

514 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
fiction historical literary mystery adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

272 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
nonfiction essays memoir funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords

A Song of Ice and Fire #3

George R.R. Martin

1177 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
City of Thieves by David Benioff

City of Thieves

David Benioff

258 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0rwilliamson's review
fiction historical emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced