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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

63 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
nonfiction essays feminism informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Thoughts in Time: Poems by Charles Jordan

Thoughts in Time: Poems

Charles Jordan

43 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
challenging informative medium-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

Cait Flanders

189 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
nonfiction memoir self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

637 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
fiction literary emotional reflective slow-paced
My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa

My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love

Dessa

288 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
nonfiction essays memoir music challenging reflective sad fast-paced
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

346 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
nonfiction feminism history mathematics race science informative inspiring slow-paced
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

477 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Small Great Things

Ruth Jefferson #1

Jodi Picoult

470 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
fiction contemporary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

Time Quintet #1

Madeleine L'Engle

280 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

5.0spinningjenny's review
fiction fantasy middle grade science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced