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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Isaac Fitzgerald

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
nonfiction essays gender memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow, David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything

David Wengrow, David Graeber

704 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward

341 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

160 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
fiction classics horror literary dark mysterious medium-paced
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley

288 pages • first pub 1818 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Every by Dave Eggers

The Every

The Circle #2

Dave Eggers

608 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
fiction literary thriller adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

790 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

Bluebeard

Kurt Vonnegut

336 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
fiction classics science fiction reflective slow-paced
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

824 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

709 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0alchemy's review
fiction horror literary mystery thriller challenging dark mysterious slow-paced