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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness

Hainish Cycle

Ursula K. Le Guin

248 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

5.0susanhecht's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

388 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0susanhecht's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative slow-paced
Días de Consuelo by Dave Ortega

Días de Consuelo

Dave Ortega

184 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0susanhecht's review
nonfiction biography comics graphic novel history
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Hainish Cycle

Ursula K. Le Guin

341 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0susanhecht's review
fiction classics science fiction speculative fiction adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #1

Erich Maria Remarque

304 pages • first pub 1928 (editions)

5.0susanhecht's review
fiction classics historical dark emotional sad medium-paced
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Blue Mars

Mars Trilogy #3

Kim Stanley Robinson

761 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0susanhecht's review
fiction science fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
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Karen Tei Yamashita

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

Karen Tei Yamashita

212 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

5.0susanhecht's review
fiction fantasy magical realism adventurous reflective fast-paced