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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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King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

376 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

Men Who Hate Women

Laura Bates

360 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code

Robert Langdon #2

Dan Brown

454 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot #10

Agatha Christie

274 pages • first pub 1934 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious fast-paced
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown

Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy

Judith C. Brown

224 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
Spear by Nicola Griffith

Spear

Nicola Griffith

184 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous medium-paced
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke

The Wood at Midwinter

Susanna Clarke

60 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories mysterious reflective fast-paced
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval

148 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious medium-paced
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

John Wiswell

310 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ romance adventurous dark funny medium-paced