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The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years by Outside Magazine

The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years

Outside Magazine

432 pages • 1997

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction nature travel adventurous informative medium-paced
The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe by Ann Morgan

The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

Ann Morgan

336 pages • hardcover • 2015

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction memoir travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
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Richard Kluger

Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

Richard Kluger

823 pages • 1975

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

200 pages • paperback • 1986

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction reference informative reflective slow-paced
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

227 pages • hardcover • 2005

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nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

185 pages • hardcover • 2020

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Plainsong

Plainsong #1

Kent Haruf

301 pages • digital • 1999

5.0writesdave's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will by Judith Schalansky

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will

Judith Schalansky

240 pages • hardcover • 2009

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction history travel adventurous medium-paced
Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports by John Branch

Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports

John Branch

320 pages • hardcover • 2021

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction essays sports emotional medium-paced
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

509 pages • digital • 1970

5.0writesdave's review
nonfiction classics history challenging informative sad medium-paced