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Persuasion by Jane Austen

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

5.0

Austen’s best and anyone’s best and a perfect novel—
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

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challenging funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

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challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
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The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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adventurous dark emotional relaxing tense medium-paced

4.0

Galatea by Madeline Miller

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dark funny mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

Honestly, Miller is at her best when she doesn’t have time to meander. Her prose has gotten better since this, yes, but I prefer the tighter story. 
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Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.25

Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel by Leigh Bardugo

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

2.5

Eh. It was short. It was fine but I hate that it had to be The Darkling? What did he do to deserve sympathy or protagonist treatment? I read the books. You cannot make me care about him—both because of him being originally meant to be irredeemable and because of him being fairly uncompelling—It was not going to be engaging when we made him the main character. Not like this. 

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

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

2.75

Eh. Pretty writing.. brilliant ideas and aesthetic. But no follow through. It’s shallow and inconsistent. I want to love it. But it’s not good. 
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 12%.
I might pick it up again but I’m just too busy to suffer through like three hundred pages of exposition. 
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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adventurous challenging dark funny slow-paced

1.25

Good riddance. A Few funny lines, reflective moments, and good discussions were not worth the rest of the book being nonsensical, boring, and Ridiculously Racist. 
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