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91 reviews

Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

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adventurous inspiring relaxing tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

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Did not finish book.
challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

5.0

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

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adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape by Charles Spencer

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adventurous funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I by Charles Spencer

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dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

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4.75

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer

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adventurous informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

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adventurous informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.5

River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandanavia to the Silk Road by Cat Jarman

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adventurous informative inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.75

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth by

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adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

Excellent biography, focused on the war years, though John Garth also does a good job of contextualising the 1914-1918 period and walking the reader (or listener— the audiobook is very well produced, read by the author himself!) through Tolkien’s creation and the history of Middle-Earth, as it relates to Tolkien’s life.