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94 reviews

Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book really captured how complicated relationships and friendships can be as a teenager, and it was a quick lighthearted read. 
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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challenging dark tense slow-paced

5.0

PET by Akwaeke Emezi

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adventurous challenging lighthearted medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book was so sweet and unique. 
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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

2.0

Some of the ideas in the book are interesting, like the metavirus and the Sumerian stuff, but Snow Crash is definitely worse than when I read it at age 14.
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

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emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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emotional funny reflective slow-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was so poetic. It’s a story about mistakes and getting stuck and being yourself. 
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman

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challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

This was really moving. I didn’t know very much about Israel/Palestine until this, and this was very eye opening.  In particular, “Two Stories, So Many Stories” made me tear up. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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challenging informative sad medium-paced

4.75

Tin Man by Sarah Winman

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a sweet little read. It was moving and sad, but beautiful at the same time.
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch

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funny informative medium-paced

5.0

This is one of my favorite non-fiction books to date. It’s funny, informative, AND delves deeply into linguistics of the internet, a topic which is phenomenally interesting to me. This is the book I wish I’d had in middle school, both to explain why some things people said about internet culture or did online irked me, and to explain to me that my affectation of grammar-policing was not making me cool and smart, but rather annoying and close-minded.