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41 reviews

An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

The Pure and the Impure by Colette

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

4.5

Severance by Ling Ma

dark mysterious 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

4.0

When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

dark reflective medium-paced

3.5

The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry by John Betjeman, Andrew Marvell, George Wither, A.E. Housman, William Barnes, Thomas Hood, Robert Burns, Charles Sedley, Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Chaucer, W.B. Yeats, John Fletcher, John Wilbye, Robert Graves, John Keats, Thomas Campion, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Austin Clarke, James Graham, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Carew, Christina Rossetti, Wendy Cope, Dorothy Parker, Edmund Waller, John Suckling, John Donne, Carol Ann Duffy, John Wilmot, Charles Cotton, William Shakespeare, Henry Wotton, Archibald MacLeish, Richard Crashaw, Anthony Hecht, Thomas Randolph, Christopher Marlowe, Henry Carey, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sophie Hannah, Patrick Macdonogh, Laurie Lee, Abraham Cowley, John Clare, Richard Fanshawe, Roy Campbell, Lord Byron, Robert Henryson, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Moore

5.0

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

4.0

The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

Summer Solstice by Nina MacLaughlin

reflective fast-paced

4.0