Books like A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
12 books with a reading profile close to A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
Sold on a Monday
narrative, literary
Set in Depression-era America, the narrative begins when Ellis Reed, a struggling newspaper reporter, photographs two young children standing next to a sign offering them for sale.
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2
Delta of Venus
by Anaïs Nin
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking collection of erotic short stories, commissioned in the 1940s by a private collector.
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3
Violeta
narrative, literary
Violeta del Valle begins her life during the 1920 influenza pandemic and concludes it amidst the global outbreak of 2020.
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4
A Long Petal of the Sea
narrative, literary
In the late 1930s, during the final days of the Spanish Civil War, Victor Dalmau, a young army doctor, and Roser Bruguera, a pregnant pianist, flee the advancing fascist forces.
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5
Go as a River
by Shelley Read
narrative, literary
Victoria Nash is a seventeen-year-old girl managing her family’s peach orchard in Iola, Colorado, during the 1940s.
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6
The Only Woman in the Room
narrative, literary
Hedy Kiesler, a Jewish actress in 1930s Vienna, escapes an abusive marriage to an Austrian arms dealer with close ties to the Nazi regime.
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7
Cold Sassy Tree
narrative, literary
Fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy lives in Cold Sassy, Georgia, in 1906, when his grandfather Rucker Blakeslee, a store owner, scandalizes the town.
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8
Run
by Ann Patchett
narrative, literary
Bernard Doyle, a former Boston mayor, has raised his sons Tip and Teddy, who are Black and were adopted, along with his biological son Doyle.
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9
Take My Hand
narrative, literary
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights era nurse Civil Townsend begins working at a federally funded family planning clinic.
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10
The Space Between Us
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Sera Dubash is a Parsi woman in Mumbai who has employed Bhima as a maid for over twenty years.
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11
The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
One morning in the Bronx, eleven-year-old Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Fuzhounese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never returns home.
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12
Ask the Passengers
by A.S. King
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Astrid Jones is a teenager in a small Pennsylvania town where everyone gossips.
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