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Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, and Outing

Minor: Sexual content

Supernatural: Nevermore by Keith R.A. DeCandido

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Fire/Fire injury

Angels & Man by rafael nicolás

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

nicolás presents us with a familiar story, an exploration of the watcher’s flood, following the fall of lucifer. like the first book, he digs deeper into the theology and mythology of the Old testament, taking us through the ruins of a supposed utopia and the Earth.  angels were made by god, as were humans and animals and plants; by exploring the dynamic of angels and humans, nicolás presents the question of how much does god know? can a god who is supposedly so loving, caring for each part of his creation be capable and willing to enact such a cruel wrath upon us? or is his love conditional, and will someday be out of our reach, just like the others? 

a heart wrenching, beautiful exploration of love between angels, humans, and demons, questioning the patriarchal power of god and the language we use to describe ourselves and the way we love, fuck, birth, live.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, Rape, Suicide, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage and Sexism

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Suicide

The Book of Queer Saints: Volume I by Mae Murray

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and Bdsm Communities by Lee Harrington, Mollena Williams

informative slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Parallel Hells by Leon Craig

dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Homophobia and Transphobia

decolonizing trans/gender 101 by b. binaohan

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

an excellent look at the various ways that trans feminine people of color are repeatedly left out of the ‘rights’ conversation due to colonialism, racism, and transmisogyny, specifically in response to the 2012 book Transgender 101 by Nicholas Teich, a white trans man. binaohan examines how white queer and trans people continually use white privilege to gain power at the expense of further targeting trans feminine Indigenous, Black, and people of color.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Transphobia

This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas

emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Outing

Moderate: Dysphoria

Minor: Deadnaming