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483 reviews

Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright

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dark emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Dusk of Dawn!: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of Race Concept by W.E.B. Du Bois

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informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

The Possessed by Albert Camus

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dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Fiction, Classics by Mary Shelley

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

This is the very definition of tedious. I could not wait for everyone to die so that I could move on to a different book
Hippolytus by Euripides

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dark reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Medea by Euripides

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dark reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Walking by Henry David Thoreau

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adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

The Price She Pays: Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women's Sports—from the Schoolyard to the Stadium by Tiffany Brown, Katie Steele

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5