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420 reviews

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

informative reflective slow-paced

2.5

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson

fast-paced

3.0

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

1.5

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

Bit of a slow start, but by the end was kind of fun and twisty. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Blood

Minor: Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

dark informative slow-paced

3.0

Misery by Stephen King

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Gripping from start to finish. I can't believe i took ao long to read this book. Tense in a way that only Stephen King can manage. I'm glad I opted for the physical copy because the added tough of the different text that was to depict the handwritten letters filling in for his typewriters missing keys was such a great touch. I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

sad medium-paced

4.0

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0