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Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom: A Story by Sylvia Plath

Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom: A Story

Sylvia Plath

46 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
fiction classics short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Kind of Hindu by Mindy Kaling

Kind of Hindu

Nothing Like I Imagined #1

Mindy Kaling

21 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild

Octavia E. Butler

31 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
fiction horror science fiction short stories challenging dark tense fast-paced
The One by John Marrs

The One

John Marrs

448 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
fiction science fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Nora Ephron

137 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
nonfiction essays memoir funny reflective fast-paced
#veryfat #verybrave: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-In-The-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer

#veryfat #verybrave: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-In-The-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini

Nicole Byer

192 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
nonfiction feminism funny reflective fast-paced
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

236 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
nonfiction essays history memoir informative reflective medium-paced
No Exit by Taylor Adams

No Exit

Taylor Adams

337 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
fiction thriller dark tense fast-paced
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid

256 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
fiction horror literary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Passengers by John Marrs

The Passengers

John Marrs

11 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0painausten's review
fiction science fiction thriller adventurous challenging tense fast-paced