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Books like Animal Dreams

12 books with a reading profile close to Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

  1. 1 This Must Be the Place

    This Must Be the Place

    by Maggie O'Farrell

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Daniel Sullivan, an American linguist, lives in a remote farmhouse in Ireland with his second wife, Claudette Wells, a famously reclusive former film star.

  2. 2 The Dovekeepers

    The Dovekeepers

    by Alice Hoffman

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Alice Hoffman reconstructs the 70 C.E.

  3. 3 One Two Three

    One Two Three

    by Laurie Frankel

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    In the small town of Bourne, the Mitchell triplets—Mab, Monday, and Mirabel—navigate lives shaped by a legacy of environmental poisoning.

  4. 4 The Wife

    The Wife

    by Meg Wolitzer

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Joan Castleman has stood beside her husband Joe, a celebrated novelist, for decades.

  5. 5 Honor

    Honor

    by Thrity Umrigar

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.

  6. 6 The Unseen World

    The Unseen World

    by Liz Moore

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.

  7. 7 Deep Cuts

    Deep Cuts

    by Holly Brickley

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Deep Cuts investigates the evolution of independent music scenes and the technical shifts in how listeners discover underground artists.

  8. 8 The Pull of the Stars

    The Pull of the Stars

    by Emma Donoghue

    narrative, literary

    The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

  9. 9 Year of Wonders

    Year of Wonders

    by Geraldine Brooks

    narrative, literary

    In 1665, a tailor in the isolated English village of Eyam receives a parcel of cloth from London infested with plague-carrying fleas.

  10. 10 Euphoria

    Euphoria

    by Lily King

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Set in 1930s New Guinea, this novel recreates the intense professional and personal intersection of three anthropologists: Nell Stone, Fenwick, and Bankson.

  11. 11 How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

    How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

    by Angie Cruz

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Set in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the narrative follows Cara Romero, a woman in her sixties who loses her factory job of twenty-five years.

  12. 12 Same As It Ever Was

    Same As It Ever Was

    by Claire Lombardo

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Julia Ames is fifty-seven when her life begins to unravel through a series of unexpected encounters in a grocery store and the complicated return of her adult son.

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