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Thin Air by Michelle Paver

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Grief, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Vomit

The Lily of Ludgate Hill by Mimi Matthews

emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Racism and Colonisation

The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Medical trauma

Minor: Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Gaslighting, and War

The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Racial slurs

To Swoon and to Spar by Martha Waters

3.25

To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters

3.0

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Ableism, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Racial slurs and Slavery

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

adventurous dark hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0