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Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Assassin's Apprentice

The Farseer Trilogy #1

Robin Hobb

400 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional slow-paced
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Thomas Cromwell #1

Hilary Mantel

653 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction historical literary challenging dark tense slow-paced
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville

Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale

Herman Melville

720 pages • first pub 1851 (editions)

fiction classics literary adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew by Ursula K. Le Guin

Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

About Writing

Ursula K. Le Guin

173 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction reference reflective slow-paced
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

The Shadow of the Torturer

The Book of the New Sun #1

Gene Wolfe

276 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction speculative fiction challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

274 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction crime literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race

Six Wild Crowns

Queens of Elben #1

Holly Race

416 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

The Devils

The Devils #1

Joe Abercrombie

560 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark funny medium-paced
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

201 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

230 pages • first pub 1926 (editions)

fiction classics magical realism emotional reflective slow-paced
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

336 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

Christopher de Hamel

632 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Jack Hartnell

352 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative lighthearted slow-paced
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

363 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by

The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

592 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction childrens