Books like Behind the Scenes at the Museum
12 books with a reading profile close to Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Dream Count
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The novel centers on Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer living in America during the pandemic, as she examines the intersections of her past romances and her current desires.
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The little disturbances of man
by Grace Paley
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the cramped apartments and bustling streets of mid-century New York City, these short stories focus on the domestic lives of Jewish women navigating family friction and romantic disappointment.
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Fidelis Waldvogel returns to Germany from the First World War with a sniper's skill and a plan to become a butcher like his father.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Sherman Alexie's linked stories follow Native American characters on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State.
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Dancing girls and other stories
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This debut short fiction collection tracks the displacement of Canadian urbanites and expatriates navigating the social shifts of the 1970s.
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Inseparable
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This autobiographical novel tracks the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, fictionalized versions of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin.
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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8
Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
A Black writer, whose name we never learn, is on a book tour for his novel, and the story follows him as he travels and tries to carry on while his mind seems to drift.
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How the García girls lost their accents
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The narrative follows the four García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—as they flee the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic to settle in New York City.
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Nocturns
by Kazuo Ishiguro, Albert Torrescasana Flotats
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nocturns is a collection of five interconnected short stories centered on musicians and the professional anxieties of the creative life.
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So Late in the Day
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
On a bright Friday in Dublin, Cathal sits at his office desk counting down the hours until the workday ends.
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We the Animals
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Three brothers, the youngest of whom narrates, grow up in upstate New York with a Puerto Rican father and a white mother who love them fiercely and also hurt them.
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