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The Odyssey by Homer

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

4.75

The Big Penis Book by

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informative lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

Custody of the Eyes by Diamela Eltit

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

4.75

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

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

4.5

The Iliad by Homer

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

4.5

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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dark emotional reflective tense fast-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

4.75

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

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

4.75

Boys’ Club Gone Wrong: Homosexual Edition. If I had to summarize this book w/a song, it’d be “… Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears. 
The Sacred Heart: An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery by Max Aguilera-Hellweg

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challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.75

Intense, raw, and unintentionally poetic. These photographs force its viewers to reckon with the concept of “self” as something that exists both within and apart of the body. This book exists within the intersection of Patrick Bateman and NBC’s Hannibal Lecter, regarding body gore as voyeurism and art.  
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

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

5.0

Orphia and Eurydicius by Elyse John

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

1.5

I sincerely pity anyone who reads this book as an introduction to Greek Mythology, and further fail to understand how it was possible to create such a misogynist story for a “feminist” retelling, and yet. (p.s. the absolute butchery of the Bacchae is reason enough not to read this book).