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The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

The Story of a New Name

The Neapolitan Novels #2

Elena Ferrante

471 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

The Neapolitan Novels #3

Elena Ferrante

400 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

The Passion

Jeanette Winterson

160 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
fiction historical lgbtqia+ magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced
Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

99 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
nonfiction essays memoir poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

288 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
nonfiction essays memoir nature emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter

114 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
fiction literary magical realism dark emotional sad fast-paced
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

Thomas Cromwell #2

Hilary Mantel

485 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
fiction historical literary challenging emotional medium-paced
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

159 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

453 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0en_escabeche's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced