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4.4 stars
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Similar themes and feel to Cry, The Beloved Country
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary...
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary...
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5 stars
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Because you like The Library Book. This explores a fire at the Venice Opera House.
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Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with local figures learned about the region's rich cultural history.
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3.5 stars
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Because you like Jane Smiley. Both write character-drive literary fiction that delves into the psyches of their protagonists.
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"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
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4.3 stars
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Because you liked Daring to Drive. Also an incredible story of a young woman overcoming unbelievable obstacles.
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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the...
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Because you like The Library Book. This explores further the history of libraries around the world.
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From the Bodleian, the Folger, and the Smithsonian to the fabled libraries of Middle Earth and other fictional libraries, Kells explores the bookish places that capture our imaginations. The result is an exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder, a celebration of books as objects, and an account of the personal nature of these spaces.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Because you liked A Wrinkle in Time. This is a classic of Children's Literature with an overarching theme of love. This has a more religious bend
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
7. Mrs. Osmond
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4 stars
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Because you enjoy Kazu Ishiguro. This is a modern continuation of the Henry James classic The Portrait of a Lady
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"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a...
8. Plainsong
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4.3 stars
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Because you like Willa Cather. This has similar feel; Homespun, moving, Elegaic
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From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of life and family as their diverse destinies intertwine.
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4 stars
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Because you like Kazu Ishiguro
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Follows the story of American heiress Isabel as she visits Europe to find her own destiny, is pursued by suitors, and ultimately must make a tragic choice.
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3.9 stars
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Because you like Remains of the Day
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Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world.
11. Villa triste
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Because you like Kazu Ishiguro. Also is centered on a Historical Time period