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35 reviews

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

challenging emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad slow-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? Yes

3.75

The Golem by Gustav Meyrink

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Finished rereading after procrastinating it a lil bit for the last months and I thought "Well! this is a book that doesnt need a review because. Well because its one of those stories that are universally loved"  but I simply must say that there is no way I wont cry everytime i read the last two chapters (and the appendix). Its the culmination of the best fantasy work ever written and, frankly, the best ending a story of this magnitude could have. I literally struggle to put into words the emotions that these books evoke in me.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

How can Tolstoi be so right on some points he made throughout this book but like. in the worst and most despicable way possible

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Beautiful and colorful prose with interesting and nicely written characters. Powerful message and critique of the caste system and the implicit misogyny present in some traditional values. Despite being a little confusing at first the flashback-flashforward structure really works on this book, separating the story in pieces that fit like a puzzle by the end of the book. This could have taken a little of the tension and interest of the (sort of) climax off but surprisingly it doesn't. 
I would have given it more stars but, despite being an original and (as one starts "getting" the characters better) refreshing choice, the narrative shaped after the way children conceptualize and describe the events of the story gets awkward. It's really well done though! But it gets old and little too quirky at times. 

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75