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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Giorgio Agamben

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Homo Sacer #I

Giorgio Agamben

228 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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nonfiction history nature politics informative reflective medium-paced
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

102 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

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nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince

Oscar Wilde

32 pages • first pub 1888 (editions)

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fiction childrens classics short stories emotional lighthearted medium-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

205 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

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fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Simulacra and Simulation

The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Jean Baudrillard

176 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

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nonfiction history literary philosophy reflective slow-paced
What a Thought by Shirley Jackson

What a Thought

Shirley Jackson

5 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

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fiction horror short stories challenging informative medium-paced
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

The Origin of Others

Toni Morrison

114 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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nonfiction essays history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
How "Bigger" was Born: The story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels by Richard Wright

How "Bigger" was Born: The story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels

Richard Wright

39 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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nonfiction essays literary
Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity by Banu Subramaniam

Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity

Banu Subramaniam

280 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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nonfiction feminism history politics science challenging informative reflective slow-paced