Books like Babel
12 books with a reading profile close to Babel by R.F. Kuang. Deep; a moderate read.
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Sauron Defeated
by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
history, dense
Sauron Defeated constitutes the ninth volume of The History of Middle-earth, documenting the final evolution of The Lord of the Rings.
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The War of the Ring
by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
history, dense
The War of the Ring constitutes the eighth volume of the History of Middle-earth, documenting the draft stages of J.R.R.
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3
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Also deep · dense, literary
In 1806, English magic is a dead subject confined to dry histories until Gilbert Norrell reveals his ability to animate the statues of York Cathedral.
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
Also deep · dense, literary
Thomas Malory compiled and reimagined disparate French and English sources to create this definitive narrative of the Arthurian cycle.
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5
Stone Blind
history, literary
Natalie Haynes reconstructs the myth of Medusa, shifting the perspective from the hero Perseus to the mortal Gorgon herself.
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The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
Also deep · history, dense
Eliza Touchet is housekeeper and cousin to the novelist William Harrison Ainsworth in Victorian London.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
Also deep · dense, literary
At Camelot's New Year feast, a huge green knight rides in and offers a challenge: anyone may strike him with an axe, if he can return the blow in a year and a day.
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The Eighth Life
history, dense
Spanning the twentieth century, this family saga begins in Georgia in the early 1900s with a chocolate maker's recipe, a hot drink said to be so delicious it carries a curse, that passes down generations of the Jashi fa…
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The World That We Knew
history, literary
In 1941 Berlin, Hanni Kohn seeks to protect her daughter, Lea, from the rising Nazi threat by commissioning the creation of a golem named Ava.
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Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
history, literary
Annis, an enslaved teenager in the pre-Civil War South, begins her story in North Carolina before being sold by the white man who fathered her.
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Tigana
literary, fantasy
Set in a Mediterranean-inspired peninsula called the Palm, the narrative centers on a group of rebels attempting to overthrow two rival sorcerer-kings, Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbentain.
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12
Lincoln
Also deep · history, dense
David Herbert Donald recreates Abraham Lincoln’s life by strictly following the information available to the president at each specific moment.
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