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Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf

70 books billed as "life-changing" and will apparently be five feet high (or 1.524 meters for those metrically minded) when stacked in these particular editions, an attribute for a booklist that seems wholly arbitrary.
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Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
Braiding Sweetgrass
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
2
Emily Dickinson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
3
Rebecca Skloot
The Waste Land and Other Poems (T. S. Eliot)
The Waste Land and Other Poems
4
T. S. Eliot
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
5
Mikhail Bulgakov
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
6
Virginia Woolf
Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey
7
Homer
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge)
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
8
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
9
Samuel Beckett
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
Wolf Hall
10
Hilary Mantel
Citizen (Claudia Rankine)
Citizen
11
Claudia Rankine
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
12
Toni Morrison
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
13
Mary Shelley
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers (Max John Porter)
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers
14
Max John Porter
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Caroline Criado Perez)
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
15
Caroline Criado Perez
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Silent Spring
16
Rachel Carson
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
17
Shoshana Zuboff
Second-Hand Time (Svetlana Alexievich)
Second-Hand Time
18
Svetlana Alexievich
The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber
19
Angela Carter
The Shadow of the Sun (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
The Shadow of the Sun
20
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Woods Etc (Alice Owsald)
Woods Etc
21
Alice Owsald
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
22
Margaret Atwood
The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
The Interpretation of Dreams
23
Sigmund Freud
The Last Samurai (Helen Dewitt)
The Last Samurai
24
Helen Dewitt
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
25
Ernest Hemingway
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt)
The Origins of Totalitarianism
26
Hannah Arendt
The Passion According to G.H. (Clarice Lispector)
The Passion According to G.H.
27
Clarice Lispector
The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
The Periodic Table
28
Primo Levi
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: The Way by Swann's (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
29
Marcel Proust
The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon)
The Wretched of the Earth
30
Frantz Fanon
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
31
Chinua Achebe
Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Tristes Tropiques
32
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
33
James Joyce
Ways of Seeing (John Berger)
Ways of Seeing
34
John Berger
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Daron Acemoäÿlu)
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
35
Daron Acemoäÿlu
Women, Race & Class (Angela Y. Davis)
Women, Race & Class
36
Angela Y. Davis
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None
37
Agatha Christie
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
38
Leo Tolstoy
Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez)
Arctic Dreams
39
Barry Lopez
Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
Ariel
40
Sylvia Plath
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