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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters by Greg McKeown

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challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary by Ozan Varol

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challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

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adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Very much an instructional, practical, to the point functional text, but still infused with ideaology and hope.
You Belong: A Call for Connection by Sebene Selassie

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Found myself wishing some of the suggestions took neurodivergence into account slightly more, and had some issues with choices of people that were quoted, but on the whole, I really enjoyed the writing and the message. 
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller, Brittney Cooper

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0