Books like Ask the Passengers
12 books with a reading profile close to Ask the Passengers by A.S. King. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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The Danish Girl
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Einar Wegener, an artist living in Denmark, experiences a profound shift in his identity, leading him to identify as a woman named Lili Elbe.
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2
Same As It Ever Was
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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3
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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4
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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5
One Two Three
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.
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6
The Seed Keeper
by Diane Wilson
narrative, literary
Rosalie Iron Wing grows up learning the traditional Dakhóta methods of gathering and preserving seeds from her father in the woods of Minnesota.
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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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8
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.
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9
This Must Be the Place
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.
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10
If I Had Your Face
by Frances Cha
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in contemporary Seoul, the novel follows four women as they navigate a rigid social hierarchy dictated by plastic surgery, debt, and the commercial sex industry.
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11
Honor
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.
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Deep Cuts
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Deep Cuts investigates the evolution of independent music scenes and the technical shifts in how listeners discover underground artists.
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