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Joe Steele by Harry Turtledove

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

3.75

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation by Allan Mitchell, Eugene N. Anderson, Alan Bullock, Gordon A. Craig, Gerhard Ritter, Karl Dietrich Bracher, William Sheridan Allen, A.J.P. Taylor, Robert H. Lowie, George W.F. Hallgarten, Franz Leopold Neumann, Wolfgang Sauer, Guenter Lewy, Robert G.L. Waite, Ernst Nolte, David Schoenbaum, Gerard Braunthal, Peter Loewenberg, Henry Ashby Turner Jr., Edmond Vermeil

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challenging informative slow-paced

2.5

Deeply boring aside from the last section, which is an extremley engaging and interesting look into Nazi society at home
The Lost Ones by Kevin J. Anderson

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

2.75

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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

4.5

Shadow Academy by Kevin J. Anderson

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adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

Heirs of the Force by Kevin J. Anderson

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

2.75

In at the Death by Harry Turtledove

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

3.25

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin

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challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev by Vladislav M. Zubok

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3.75