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The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Ferrante meets Moshfegh 🫶🏼 adored 

The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala

challenging dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Marcial Gala is one of the greatest novelists alive 😭😭😭❤️‍🩹

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Harrow by Joy Williams

challenging dark funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Helen House by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

Bear by Marian Engel

reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

My exact kind of book. A quiet woman goes to an isolated island in Canada to log the contents of a cabin. Also at the cabin, is a pet bear. The woman contemplates her life, her relationship to herself & love, and slowly bonds with the bear. 
Taboo as a way to explore the isolation of womanhood, great companion to Mrs Caliban (or more modern The Pisces) 

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.75

Solito by Javier Zamora

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

Revenge by Yōko Ogawa

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.25