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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

840 pages • first pub 1879 (editions)

5.0ellephuonglinhnguyen's review
fiction classics challenging dark reflective slow-paced
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union by Svetlana Alexiévich

Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union

Голоса утопии #5

Svetlana Alexiévich

496 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0ellephuonglinhnguyen's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative reflective slow-paced
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexiévich

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Голоса утопии #4

Svetlana Alexiévich

267 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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nonfiction history science dark emotional sad medium-paced
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexiévich

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

Голоса утопии #3

Svetlana Alexiévich

224 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

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nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexiévich, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Голоса утопии #2

Svetlana Alexiévich, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

320 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

304 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0ellephuonglinhnguyen's review
nonfiction self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Overstory

Richard Powers

444 pages • first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

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fiction literary emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
Nỗi Buồn Chiến Tranh by Bảo Ninh

Nỗi Buồn Chiến Tranh

Bảo Ninh

348 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

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fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel

Milan Kundera

214 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

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fiction classics literary romance reflective medium-paced