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76 reviews

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

5.0

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr

challenging emotional inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Grief

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

emotional funny fast-paced

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

2.5

The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, and Colonisation

Red Bird by Mary Oliver

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Rose Quartz: Poems by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Car accident

Minor: Police brutality and Pandemic/Epidemic

The Metamorphosis: Translation by David Wyllie by Franz Kafka

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

5.0