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396 reviews

Sudden Traveler: Stories by Sarah Hall

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

challenging dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

3.75

I enjoyed this on its own merits, but just once I'd like a queer analogy where we aren't literally monsters.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

adventurous funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, and Drug abuse

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.

The book that dares to ask the question "what if Neil Gaiman was boring?"

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.75

Eat the Reich by Grant Howitt

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

4.0