Books like All My Sons
12 books with a reading profile close to All My Sons by Arthur Miller. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Native Son
by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the segregated South Side of Chicago during the 1930s, the narrative follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man trapped by systemic poverty and racial prejudice.
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2
The Winter of Our Discontent
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
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3
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The title novella follows an unnamed narrator in wartime New York who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
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4
James
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Percival Everett’s novel reimagines Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved Jim.
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5
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In 1979, aging Iowa farmer Larry Cook decides to divide his namesake farm among his three daughters: Ginny, Rose, and Tyra.
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6
Sister Carrie
Also deep and thought-provoking · 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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7
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
After the funeral of Molly Lane, her two former lovers—Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor—forge a mutual euthanasia pact to avoid a similar cognitive decline.
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8
Home
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Frank Money, a Black Korean War veteran, wakes up in a psychiatric ward in Seattle in the 1950s, haunted by what he saw in battle.
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9
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
A retired colonel in a small Colombian town has waited fifteen years for the pension he was promised after serving in a civil war.
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10
Pygmalion
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Professor Henry Higgins, a specialist in phonetics, bets that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a duchess by altering her speech and manners.
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11
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.
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12
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
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