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What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You about Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again by Jancee Dunn

hopeful informative medium-paced

Hild by Nicola Griffith

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? No

5.0

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

dark mysterious tense 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

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis by Emma Bolden

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

The Bookbinder by Pip Williams

emotional inspiring reflective 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? No

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It by Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons

informative reflective medium-paced