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221 reviews

House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Racism, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Grief

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year with the Criminally Insane by Stephen Seager

dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden

emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia and Violence

Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes by Emily Craig

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Brother by Ania Ahlborn

challenging dark tense medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

dark funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

5.0

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, and Death of parent