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Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol

Moderate: Fatphobia and Dysphoria

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

Salt the Water by Candice Iloh

emotional fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Excrement, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Deadnaming and Transphobia

Hum by Helen Phillips

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Minor: Sexual content

From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine by Sai Englert, Rosie Warren, Michal Schatz

informative sad slow-paced

A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole by Marian Schembari

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.5

Thanks to Macmillan Audio for the free copy of this book.

 - A LITTLE LESS BROKEN is memoir with a big dash of research (or the lack thereof) about autistic women.
- I found a lot of this book to be highly relatable, and I think many will, even people who aren’t autistic. There’s a lot here about women and acceptable social behavior, medical diagnoses, and parenting.
- Schembari reads the audiobook and brings a ton of heart to it. She is a very engaging narrator and you can hear her joy and frustration throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexism, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide

If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar

emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Domestic abuse and Alcohol

Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

This is a clever modern retelling, but at their meet cute both of them said weirdly racist things to each other and it was basically ignored?? Also why is everyone so sure they're going to find a man at a party for a new condo building?

The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri

adventurous dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

emotional reflective slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content