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7 books

Dragonfly Falling by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Dragonfly Falling

Shadows of the Apt #2

Adrian Tchaikovsky

25 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

272 pages • first pub 1854 (editions)

fiction classics literary reflective slow-paced
Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy by Emma Griffin

Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy

Emma Griffin

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative medium-paced
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Gormenghast

Gormenghast #2

Mervyn Peake

18 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 1950 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

10 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

An Ember in the Ashes

An Ember in the Ashes #1

Sabaa Tahir

13 hours, 56 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

Wild Seed

Patternist #1

Octavia E. Butler

320 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous dark tense medium-paced