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114 reviews

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

2.75

How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century by Lydia Edwards

informative slow-paced

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

2.25

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

A gorgeous, complex and real illustration of the African-American experience at an uncertain place between emancipation and freedom. Hurston’s prose is remarkably smooth and her reverence for Black speech, Black humour, and Black language is impossible to miss; it’s beauty.

Misogyny will kill us all!!! Stop the foolishness!!!

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas

informative lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.5

3.5 stars: thoroughly interesting for the most part, despite its age. definitely could have been edited down some.

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

emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0