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182 reviews

Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

5.0

A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.25

Doctor Who: Combat Magicks by Stephen Cole

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Doctor Who: The Good Doctor by Juno Dawson

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Doctor Who: The Wonderful Doctor of Oz by Jacqueline Rayner, Asmaa Isse

emotional funny hopeful relaxing 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? No

3.75

v sweet and silly. i LOVED the ending!!

Doctor Who: The Witchfinders by Joy Wilkinson

adventurous funny 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

4.25

The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs by Malcolm Hulke

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.

lots of clunky casual misogyny and objectification of women in the prose. it was winding me up, so i had to drop it 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Misogyny