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376 reviews

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander

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challenging informative medium-paced

2.75

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

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

1.5

The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole by Mark Bowen

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hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

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

3.75

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
What started as an interesting musing on the history of our understanding of eels and some autobiographical short stories took a hard right turn into Freud fanboying and misogyny. I've rarely been so disappointed.
Book of Night by Holly Black

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challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

very strong an informative start, but a hard bend into radical faminism in the last two chapters that I could bot reconcile 
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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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? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5