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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

challenging emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Medical content

Minor: Racism

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

emotional hopeful 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

I'M WEEPING!!!! Absolutely inconsolable!! Thank you Malinda Lo for this gaysian food

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, Outing, and Alcohol

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual content, and War

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

dark emotional funny mysterious 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

This book was such an amazing follow-up to Gideon the Ninth. We've got double the millennial meme references (none House left grief!?), even more terrifying space necromancy, and DRAMA. It has one of the weirdest perspectives and plots I've ever read and I LOVED IT. Harrow the Ninth is the ONLY way bury your gays should be used in media, actually.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Grief

Minor: Ableism and Genocide

Hallucinations, manipulation and gaslighting, unreality

Once & Future by A.R. Capetta, Cory McCarthy

adventurous emotional 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

3.5

Once and Future had a lot of awesome concepts, but it unfortunately didn't live up to my expectations! It might have benefited from being a longer book to fit in more worldbuilding and make the important plot points longer. The romance could have been more compelling, especially between Ari and Gwen, but I finished the book feeling unsatisfied with the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Rape

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Dementia, and Car accident

Minor: Gun violence and Misogyny

Detailed descriptions of corpses in various stages of decomposition

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

I really didn't enjoy the use of

a rape attempt

as a situation to have the love interest save the MC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Dementia

Minor: Racism and Self harm

Attempted sexual assault

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

challenging dark sad slow-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Death of parent

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, and Cannibalism

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism