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Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

318 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
fiction crime literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer #1

Viet Thanh Nguyen

384 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
fiction historical literary thriller challenging dark tense slow-paced
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

288 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
fiction classics historical speculative fiction dark emotional tense medium-paced
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine by Jen Gunter

The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine

Jen Gunter

432 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
nonfiction feminism health science challenging informative slow-paced
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen Gunter

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

Jen Gunter

370 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
nonfiction feminism health informative inspiring medium-paced
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop

At Night All Blood Is Black

David Diop

145 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
fiction historical literary challenging dark sad medium-paced
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

390 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
fiction historical literary emotional funny inspiring medium-paced
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Season of Migration to the North

Tayeb Salih

176 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
fiction historical dark reflective slow-paced
Stoner by John Williams

Stoner

John Williams

278 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

The African Trilogy #1

Chinua Achebe

152 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

5.0emmaliz's review
fiction classics historical challenging dark reflective medium-paced