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How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses by Mark M. Smith

How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

Mark M. Smith

200 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Marquis' Secret by George MacDonald

The Marquis' Secret

George MacDonald

228 pages • first pub 1877 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
fiction classics historical informative reflective medium-paced
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson

The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson

208 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
fiction comics adventurous inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Walter Johnson

560 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

432 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
nonfiction essays history travel challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

The City of Mirrors

The Passage #3

Justin Cronin

624 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
fiction fantasy literary thriller adventurous dark reflective slow-paced
The Nix by Nathan Hill

The Nix

Nathan Hill

640 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
fiction historical literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton

Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800

Mary Beth Norton

408 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 by David Morris Potter

The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

David Morris Potter

672 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

5.0markcheathem's review
nonfiction history philosophy informative slow-paced