Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge - hosted by booklistqueen

Fiction & Nonfiction Pairing - Fiction Selection
Time to read a pair of books - a fiction and a nonfiction book that go together. Either about a similar topic, with a similar setting, or maybe with the same author.
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Hex by Jenni Fagan

Hex

Jenni Fagan

112 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Question of the Felonious Friend by Jeff Cohen, E.J. Copperman

The Question of the Felonious Friend

An Asperger’s Mystery #3

Jeff Cohen, E.J. Copperman

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction mystery funny mysterious medium-paced
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

288 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

fiction classics historical speculative fiction dark emotional tense medium-paced
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Rebecca Donner

576 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history informative medium-paced
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Thomas Cromwell #1

Hilary Mantel

650 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction historical challenging dark tense slow-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Orphans of the Storm by Celia Imrie

Orphans of the Storm

Celia Imrie

14 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

fiction historical adventurous emotional medium-paced
Supper Club by Jackie Morrow

Supper Club

Jackie Morrow

232 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction food and drink graphic novel young adult emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley

494 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery thriller young adult dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman

The Thread Collectors

Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman

400 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical emotional informative reflective medium-paced