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Observational Books
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as observational)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,605 ratings — published 1968
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as observational)
avg rating 3.93 — 314,607 ratings — published 2005
The Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as observational)
avg rating 4.19 — 226 ratings — published 1984
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as observational)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,263 ratings — published 2015
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as observational)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,410 ratings — published 2015
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 152,443 ratings — published 2013
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as observational)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,617 ratings — published 2012
The Mezzanine (Vintage Contemporaries)
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avg rating 3.81 — 10,787 ratings — published 1988
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.14 — 244,080 ratings — published 1886
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,504,466 ratings — published 1915
The Red Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,196 ratings — published 2001
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,955,618 ratings — published 1890
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.24 — 825,231 ratings — published 1966
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,936,777 ratings — published 1813
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 386,321 ratings — published 2024
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,629 ratings — published 1988
How to Draw a Tree (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 54 ratings — published
The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Architecture of Despair)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.02 — 59 ratings — published 1995
Flophouse: Life on the Bowery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 175 ratings — published 2000
How the Forest Feels: Sensory Play Nature's Way (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 71 ratings — published
Soft Skills Nobody Taught You: Understanding the Hidden Rules That Shape How We Live and Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.35 — 188,286 ratings — published 2021
Outline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.66 — 73,838 ratings — published 2014
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.19 — 39,425 ratings — published 2023
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,744 ratings — published 2003
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.67 — 396,970 ratings — published 2016
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.50 — 977 ratings — published 1931
Glittering City (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.17 — 566 ratings — published 1966
Fame (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,760 ratings — published 2018
An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.61 — 802 ratings — published 1963
The Duke in His Domain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,214 ratings — published 1957
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,478,286 ratings — published 1942
Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,281 ratings — published 2013
Alan Partridge: Nomad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,997 ratings — published 2016
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.10 — 274,721 ratings — published 1997
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,050 ratings — published 2017
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 455,801 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 4.37 — 418,023 ratings — published 2019
An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,501 ratings — published 1964
The Best American Travel Writing 2013: A Collection of Lush Literary Essays from Far-Flung Locales (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.77 — 761 ratings — published 2013
The Bluffer's Guide to Cricket: Bluff Your Way in Cricket (The Bluffer's Guides)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.85 — 26 ratings — published 2013
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.73 — 622,363 ratings — published 2017
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.27 — 47,840 ratings — published 2025
Here One Moment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 313,591 ratings — published 2024
The Swimmers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 41,302 ratings — published 2022
Lenny Bruce is Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.29 — 519 ratings — published 2001
Island Storm (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 509 ratings — published 2025
Where the Deer Slip Through (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 322 ratings — published
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as observational)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,545 ratings — published 2025
“No, these individuals have had their fill. They depleted the resources of communication amongst themselves. It no longer offered excitation. They wanted a tryst, a midnight rendezvous, to be tongue-tied for an evening, not having to worry about puritanical appearances, acceptable behavior, placing place settings and feeding their children with cherubic faces. Trading paradisiacal palisades of their guarded community, the spiritless suburbia for subterranean devilry. These were philistines, not patrons of the arts. They merely wanted escapism. A stranger to fill their heads. A morally corrupt stand-up comic delivering the goods: immorality, immodesty, and obscenity. Food for thought, nutritive to their stale lives. Perhaps something they could even discuss behind locked doors, back in the privacy of their safe, secure homes.”
― Conversational Therapy: Stories and Plays
― Conversational Therapy: Stories and Plays
“Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
