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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

adventurous hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

adventurous hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery

3.75

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

The Lives of Animals by Marjorie Garber, Barbara Smuts, J.M. Coetzee, Wendy Doniger, Amy Gutmann, Peter Singer

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma by Annie G. Rogers

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Antisemitism

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

adventurous challenging reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

Demian by Hermann Hesse

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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