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We Live in Water by Jess Walter

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

3.0

I never want to read the name Tommy again
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, Linda Brent

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Capote by Gerald Clarke

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challenging emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate by Norma Barzman

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reflective medium-paced

2.5

It’s interesting to have your husband be the main character of your memoir. I would have given a higher rating though had she not, in the epilogue, compared being blacklisted by Hollywood to the holocaust. 
The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan

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

4.5

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

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

4.0

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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adventurous hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement by Sylvia Plath

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

3.75

Sometimes I forget that poetry can be fiction
San Francisco Blues by Jack Kerouac

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

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adventurous lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

You mean to tell me the headless horseman’s head isn’t a jack o lantern but just a regular head? Though his rival probably was the “headless horseman” chasing him and tossed a pumpkin at him hence the imagery