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Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug

Present Tense Machine

Gunnhild Øyehaug

4.5
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Flights

Olga Tokarczuk

4.0
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

5.0
challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza

The Iliac Crest

Cristina Rivera Garza

4.0
challenging dark tense slow-paced
Love by Hanne Ørstavik

Love

Hanne Ørstavik

4.75
challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

4.75
dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

Dependency

Tove Ditlevsen

5.0
challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced
Truly one of the bleakest books I've read. Incredible portrait of addiction published in 1971 that feels much more modern in its storytelling in many ways. I often forgot I was reading memoir and at times felt like I was reading something Elena Ferrante wrote, it felt the way that her protagonists describe their lives in hindsight. An incredible ending to a very good trilogy. I cried as it closed.
Youth by Tove Ditlevsen

Youth

Tove Ditlevsen

5.0
emotional reflective medium-paced
Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen

Childhood

Tove Ditlevsen

4.5
dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced
The Guest by Emma Cline

The Guest

Emma Cline

4.5
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Finished this within 48 hours and the menacing tension was palpable. I couldn't look away from Alex's journey.