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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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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

264 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

Tom Lin

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical adventurous dark medium-paced
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Watership Down

Watership Down #1

Richard Adams

478 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

fiction childrens classics fantasy adventurous emotional medium-paced
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin

Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin

242 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

224 pages • first pub 1895 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy horror short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

The Essex Serpent

Sarah Perry

432 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Stone Butch Blues

Leslie Feinberg

308 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

304 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction historical horror lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

The Late Americans

Brandon Taylor

303 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by L. Noble

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Early Modern Cultural Studies

L. Noble

241 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary medium-paced