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2025
Reading Wrap-Up

Books by new authors

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Caroline Fraser

16h 12m • 2025 • 13 editions

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
3.25 sicksadlit's review
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Earthseed #1

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

317 pages • 1993 • 100 editions

fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
5.0 sicksadlit's review
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

The Neapolitan Novels #1

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

331 pages • 2011 • 236 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
4.0 sicksadlit's review
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan

284 pages • 2023 • 16 editions

user-added

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
4.25 sicksadlit's review
The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping by Samantha Harvey

The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

Samantha Harvey

4h 33m • 2020 • 20 editions

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nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
3.75 sicksadlit's review
Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Orbital

Samantha Harvey

136 pages • 2023 • 98 editions

fiction literary science fiction inspiring reflective slow-paced
5.0 sicksadlit's review