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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Little Women #1

Louisa May Alcott

474 pages • first pub 1868 (editions)

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fiction classics emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

227 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

358 pages • first pub 1911 (editions)

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fiction classics middle grade hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

256 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

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fiction classics fantasy middle grade adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Jorge Luis Borges

256 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

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fiction classics essays short stories reflective slow-paced
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

ねじまき鳥クロニクル / The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle #1-3

Haruki Murakami

26 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 1994 (editions) user-added

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fiction contemporary literary magical realism dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

194 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

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fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot

810 pages • first pub 1871 (editions)

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fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera

312 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

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fiction literary philosophy reflective medium-paced
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

321 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad slow-paced