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Average Rating:
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.
Description:
"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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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
Description:
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.
3. Mrs. Osmond
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Average Rating:
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
Description:
"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...
4. Plainsong
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Average Rating:
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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Average Rating:
4 stars
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Because you like Kazu Ishiguro
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Description:
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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Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Because you like Remains of the Day
Description:
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.
7. Villa triste
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Because you like Kazu Ishiguro. Also is centered on a Historical Time period