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Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

363 pages • digital • 2023

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

What You Are Looking for is in the Library

Michiko Aoyama

256 pages • digital • 2020

fiction literary hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Orange Is the New Black: Da Manhattan al carcere: il mio anno dietro le sbarre by Piper Kerman

Orange Is the New Black: Da Manhattan al carcere: il mio anno dietro le sbarre

Piper Kerman

368 pages • digital • 2010 user-added

nonfiction memoir true crime emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

1276 pages • paperback • 1844

fiction classics literary adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

208 pages • digital • 1995

fiction dystopian literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami

190 pages • hardcover • 2009

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas by Roberto Bolaño

Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas

Roberto Bolaño

208 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction contemporary short stories reflective medium-paced
Orgoglio e Pregiudizio e Zombie by Seth Grahame-Smith, Seth Grahame-Smith

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio e Zombie

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies #1

Seth Grahame-Smith, Seth Grahame-Smith

367 pages • digital • 2009

fiction fantasy horror adventurous dark funny medium-paced
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

The Memory Police

Yōko Ogawa

288 pages • digital • 1994

fiction dystopian literary science fiction dark reflective sad slow-paced
Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2 by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Seven Seas Edition) #2

Meng Xi Shi

388 pages • paperback • 2015

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ romance adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced