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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport

The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

The Romanov Sisters #2

Helen Rappaport

492 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
nonfiction biography history emotional informative sad medium-paced
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Atonement

Ian McEwan

351 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

325 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by P.E. Moskowitz

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

P.E. Moskowitz

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
nonfiction economics history politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Luftwaffe War Diaries by Cajus Bekker

The Luftwaffe War Diaries

Cajus Bekker

448 pages • first pub 1964 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

448 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

448 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
fiction contemporary literary funny reflective slow-paced
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman

400 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
fiction fantasy horror short stories adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

ReVisioning American History

Paul Ortiz

296 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

480 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0theclassickid's review
fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced