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44 reviews

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Starve Acre: A Novel by Andrew Michael Hurley

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

informative medium-paced

4.5

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin is one of those dark, unsettling, twisted reality fever dreams that grips you from the start and drags you through at race pace until finally releasing you to the waking world at the very end. 

I'm Not Sick, I Don't Need Help by Xavier Francisco Amador

hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Rise of the Governor by Jay Bonansinga, Robert Kirkman

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5