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The Sun
The biggest and baddest object of the solar system! The Sun is our home star and makes up 99.86% of the mass in the solar system. The Sun is the reason for life on Earth, but don't look at it! I think you all know what the sun is.

Suggestions: a yellow/white book, a massive book, a book about a pop-star, a book about light, a light book (take that as you will), a book beginning with S, a book about summer, about daytime, about new beginnings, about repetition, a book about hydrogen & helium, a book that takes place in a time period when the Sun was discovered to be the center of the solar system, ...
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Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah

Small Joys

Elvin James Mensah

9 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

323 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary thriller dark tense fast-paced
Summer in Algiers by Albert Camus

Summer in Algiers

Albert Camus

55 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays philosophy reflective slow-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

538 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced
Stupeurs et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb

Stupeurs et tremblements

Amélie Nothomb

187 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction contemporary challenging fast-paced
Selp-Helf by Miranda Sings

Selp-Helf

Miranda Sings

240 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction self help adventurous funny fast-paced
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon

384 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction romance young adult emotional lighthearted fast-paced
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson

371 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

433 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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