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290 reviews

The Divine Boys by Laura Restrepo

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, and Murder

My Invented Country by Isabel Allende

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Man Enough to Be a Woman by Jayne County

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Transphobia

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

challenging dark funny sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

Bernard And Pat by Blair James

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Jamilia by Chingiz Aïtmatov

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness and Death of parent

The Bequest by Joanna Margaret

challenging dark slow-paced

2.0

Weirdly listenable but also not that great, very windy and overlapping and a bit too much sometimes. A for story, D for execution