Books like A Moveable Feast
12 books with a reading profile close to A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
West with the Night
memoir, narrative
Beryl Markham recounts her upbringing in colonial East Africa, where she trained racehorses alongside the Kipsigis people and survived encounters with lions.
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2
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
Also contemplative · memoir, narrative
Isak Dinesen chronicles seventeen years spent managing a coffee plantation at the foot of the Ngong Hills in Kenya.
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3
Shirley
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
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4
Hag-Seed
narrative, literary
Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.
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5
Sister Carrie
narrative, literary
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
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6
Bless Me, Ultima
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Six-year-old Antonio Márez grows up in a New Mexico village in the 1940s, in a household divided between his father's wandering family and his mother's farming one.
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7
Adam Bede
by George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in the rural community of Hayslope at the end of the eighteenth century, the narrative follows the upright carpenter Adam Bede and his unrequited love for the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorrel.
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8
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Jim Burden moves to the Nebraska frontier to live with his grandparents, where he befriends Ántonia Shimerda, the eldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants.
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9
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in early twentieth-century Maine, the narrative follows Homer Wells, a perpetual orphan raised at St.
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10
Chronicles, Volume One
by Bob Dylan
Also contemplative · memoir, narrative
Bob Dylan sidesteps the traditional chronological life story to focus on three specific periods of his career: his 1961 arrival in Greenwich Village, the 1970 recording sessions for New Morning, and the 1989 production…
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11
Prodigal Summer
narrative, literary
In the humid mountains of southern Appalachia, three narrative threads intersect through the lens of evolutionary biology and ecological interdependence.
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12
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
narrative, literary
Set along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, these interconnected novels follow the lives of two boys navigating the constraints of antebellum society.
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