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Mercury
The first and fastest planet! Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. It is a rocky body with a thin atmosphere and no moons. Due to the practically non-existent atmosphere, Mercury is also heavily cratered. Mercury's orbit is the most eccentric out of all the planets, meaning its orbit is the most least like a circle. A year on Mercury is 88 Earth days, but a single day on Mercury is 116 Earth days! The Sun's gravity latches on to small little Mercury and makes the days super long. Sometimes Mercury goes into retrograde, an optical illusion that makes the planet appear that it's moving backwards in its orbit. This is just cased by the fact that both Earth and Mercury are both moving, and at different speeds.

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

67 pages • first pub 1895 (editions)

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Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Peter Darling

Austin Chant

204 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol

The Murderbot Diaries #3

Martha Wells

158 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous funny fast-paced
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

Olga Ravn

136 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective fast-paced
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

We Had to Remove This Post

Hanna Bervoets

144 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary speculative fiction dark reflective tense fast-paced
The Days of Abandonment: Elena Ferrante by Elena Ferrante

The Days of Abandonment: Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante

188 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

Amal Unbound

Aisha Saeed

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary middle grade challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced
Barbe bleue by Amélie Nothomb

Barbe bleue

Amélie Nothomb

170 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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The Metamorphosis by Peter Kuper, Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

Peter Kuper, Franz Kafka

80 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Gustave Doré, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Gustave Doré, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

31 minutes • first pub 1792 (editions) user-added

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