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A Party for Thaera: Palestinian Women Write Life in Prison by Haifa Zangana

dark emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Colonisation, War, and Deportation

War Is a Racket (the Profit That Fuels Warfare): The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier by Smedley D. Butler, Smedley D. Butler

dark informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

3.25

The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides by James Romm, Mary Lefkowitz

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Stolen Spirits: The Appropriation of The Windigo Spirit In Horror Literature by Kallie Nicole Hunchman

informative reflective fast-paced

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Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Live Die and Be Born in Gaza by David Segarra Soler

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Minor: Rape

My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary as Told to George Hajjar by Leila Khaled

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Grief, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death, Rape, and Torture

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.5

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0