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Snake Oil by Kelsey Rae Dimberg

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challenging dark tense slow-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

4.25

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

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challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures by Katherine Rundell

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adventurous challenging informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

A solid read, very approachable for nonfiction but really made me upset about how we take for granted our world and everyone and everything around us. 
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

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

2.75

James by Percival Everett

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

5.0

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

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challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book took me till over halfway through to be invested in it. Overall, an ok read, definitely opened a door to more research about The Troubles and the IRA as an American. 
Offtrack by Esha Patel

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 43%.
I tried. It’s a quick and very readable book. But the time travel and aliens keep being jarring to me to the point it is making me not want to continue because why the hell are there aliens in this book? 
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The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty

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dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga

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

4.25