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53 reviews

The Dollmaker by Justin Robinson

challenging dark slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

informative fast-paced

3.0

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Medical content, and Abortion

Minor: Transphobia

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Forced institutionalization

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

informative medium-paced

3.0

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt

funny informative fast-paced

3.0

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson

dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Colonisation, and War

The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford

informative

3.0

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Persephone Station by Stina Leicht

adventurous medium-paced

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

1.0