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Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 52%.
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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

4.5

On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

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challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

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dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

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

4.5

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

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

4.0

Corbynism: A Critical Approach by Matt Bolton, Frederick Harry Pitts

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challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

Disagree pretty strongly with some of the Israel/Palestine thinking in this book, but otherwise a very well-rounded and enlightening critique
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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challenging emotional reflective tense slow-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

4.5