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Good Girl by Aria Aber

Good Girl

Aria Aber

348 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

3.5oliviasbooktalk's review
fiction literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

545 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

4.0oliviasbooktalk's review
fiction historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

213 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.5oliviasbooktalk's review
fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

Glorious Exploits

Ferdia Lennon

289 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

4.0oliviasbooktalk's review
fiction historical literary adventurous emotional funny medium-paced
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

3.5oliviasbooktalk's review
fiction contemporary literary romance emotional reflective medium-paced
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

185 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0oliviasbooktalk's review
nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

4.0oliviasbooktalk's review
fiction classics dystopian literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

267 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.5oliviasbooktalk's review
nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

366 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.0oliviasbooktalk's review
nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

173 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

4.5oliviasbooktalk's review
fiction dystopian literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced