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83 reviews

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.5

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Car accident, Death of parent

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

3.5

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

2.5

I wanted to like this book, but I feel it ended up being hollow prose more than anything. A little world building and context would have gone a long way. 

Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

challenging emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, Islamophobia

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

3.25

Twin Flames by Olivia Abtahi

2.75

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

2.75

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This book is written in such a comfortable, conversational way that you feel intimately acquainted with the characters and their lives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Racism

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Dr. Wall-Kimmerer has done it again 🥲