Books like Ariadne
12 books with a reading profile close to Ariadne by Jennifer Saint. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Kaikeyi
narrative, classic literature
Kaikeyi, the queen who in the Ramayana demands that Rama be exiled and her son Bharata be crowned, is usually remembered as a villain.
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2
The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
narrative, classic literature
Bastian Balthazar Bux is a lonely boy who steals an antique book and hides in his school’s attic to read it.
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3
Watership Down
narrative, classic literature
Hazel leads a small group of rabbits away from their home burrow after his brother Fiver experiences a psychic premonition of its total destruction.
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4
Lost Horizon
by James Hilton
narrative, classic literature
During the chaos of a 1930s rebellion in British India, veteran diplomat Hugh Conway and three companions are kidnapped when their plane is diverted deep into the Kunlun Mountains of Tibet.
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5
The Children of Húrin
narrative, classic literature
Set during the Elder Days of Middle-earth, this tragedy chronicles the life of Túrin Turambar, son of Húrin.
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6
A Wizard of Earthsea
narrative, classic literature
Ged, a talented but arrogant youth known as Sparrowhawk, begins his education in the high arts of magic at the school on Roke Island.
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7
The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant
narrative, classic literature
Alessandra Cecchi is the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in fifteenth-century Florence, a city transitioning from the height of humanist art to the religious fervor of the monk Savonarola.
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8
By Any Other Name
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, classic literature
This novel follows two women separated by centuries who both navigate the constraints placed on female authorship.
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9
Once Upon a River
narrative, literary
On a winter night at the Swan Inn along the Thames, a wounded stranger staggers through the door carrying the lifeless body of a small girl.
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10
Daughter of Fortune
narrative, classic literature
In mid-nineteenth-century Valparaiso, Eliza Sommers is raised as a foundling by a rigid British family.
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11
When Women Were Dragons
narrative, literary
During the 1955 Mass Dragoning, hundreds of thousands of American women spontaneously transformed into dragons and took to the skies, leaving behind families and lives of forced domesticity.
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12
Evangeline
narrative, classic literature
Set in 1755 during the Expulsion of the Acadians, this epic poem follows the separation of two lovers, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse.
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