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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

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

4.0

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi

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dark funny reflective 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

4.5

Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

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

3.5

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

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challenging dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.0

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Linking pandemic failures, internet personas, conspiracy theories, climate crisis, wellness influencers, and far right podcasts, Klein demonstrates how capitalist colonial white supremacist patriarchal structures work to pit certain members of society against each other while allying others; and most crucially, how the left is complicit through our desire to distance ourselves from the right. 

The section on Palestine and Israel falters a bit, and because it’s at the end it loses some momentum, but over all a compelling and thoughtful book that puts into words many of the unsettling feelings I had during the early days of the pandemic. 
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

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

3.0

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

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adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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

4.5

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

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emotional funny 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

3.5

The Details by Ia Genberg

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reflective slow-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? Yes

3.5