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Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

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challenging dark 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

4.75

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

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

4.0

Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

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

4.75

Trillian is one of the most underrated characters in this series. Also might be my favourite of the five??
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

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

4.5

A continuation of madness and frivolity and wonder and beautiful, fantastic silliness.
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

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challenging dark funny mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Absolutely LOVED this bizarre surreal collection of madness and what felt like psychosis. Absolutely worth the hype I will be reading again and reading more of Chung’s work for SURE. 
The Power by Naomi Alderman

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

4.0

Where do I start???? I thoroughly enjoyed it I think, and I loved the way it was laid out (and also read in the audiobook version) through museum guides, artefacts, and letters as well as other means. It had the same sort of feeling of The Handmaid’s Tale: that sort of grim aha imagine but the opposite but also very realistic? 
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

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adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

This was so so big and so so long. I loved it but it took me a long time to get through. I think I would have rated it higher had I not already read Piranessi which was so surreal and fantastic. Still an amazing amount of detail and lore put into it which I always appreciate. 
Medea: (National Theatre of Scotland Version) by Euripides

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dark emotional fast-paced

3.75

This is hard because I LOVE Medea and I love every translation I’ve ever read but there was just a few things missing for me in this one that I loved so deeply about others I’ve read. 
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

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emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

Absolutely beautiful. Slow paced but in the most delicious and comforting way. Something to be savoured and come back to again and again. 
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. Barbara Ehrenreich by Barbara Ehrenreich

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informative medium-paced

4.75

Watch this become the basis for my PHD.