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Aura by Carlos Fuentes

dark mysterious tense

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

5.0

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, and Slavery

Body horror/nastiness when Georgie

willingly receives a parasite for plot reasons

but it is brief (a couple sentences) and not graphic.

Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.75

Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Charles Soule

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, and War

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Torture, Child death, Racism, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Slavery, and Sexual violence

Minor: Pedophilia and Rape

The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• 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

Very heavy book, as should be obvious from the description. An unflinching collection of memories, documents, and imaginings of torture and disappearances during the Pinochet regime, how those horrors became quotidian, and how we think of them now, all understood through the frame of the twilight zone, a place of dreamlike unreality-based-in-reality. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Blood, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Gun violence, and Genocide

Minor: Suicide

The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation by Alan Fruzzetti

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

adventurous hopeful inspiring slow-paced

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

4.75

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Transphobia and Drug use

Minor: Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Racism