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Educated by Tara Westover

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel

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adventurous informative slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

Not that much happens in this one but I still enjoy living in the world Auel has created
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

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informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Should be required reading for every white person.
Spare by Prince Harry

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

Psychic Self-Defense: The Definitive Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack by Dion Fortune

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informative medium-paced

4.0

The Book Of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No
Harrowing. No star rating as I do not believe it is my place to do so
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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challenging dark sad tense 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? Yes

2.75

Bitter & beautiful depiction of life on the windy moor, but DAMN I'm glad to leave these characters behind. What a miserable, abusive bunch. Not a single likeable person. Draining read.
Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-Of-Body Experience by Robert A. Monroe

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Absolutely loved his scientific approach to OBE. Very careful to hedge his conclusions and look for mundane explanations. This makes his non-mundane hypotheses more interesting.
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking, hilarious, informative, enraging, inspiring. The full gamut.