Books like Bless Me, Ultima
12 books with a reading profile close to Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. Contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
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Ethan Frome
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the frozen landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story follows Ethan Frome, a farmer trapped in a hollow marriage to his sickly, suspicious wife, Zeena.
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3
Shirley
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
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4
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
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Sister Carrie
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
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6
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.
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Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Dana Yarboro knows her father, James Witherspoon, has another family.
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8
The Winter of Our Discontent
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
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9
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jim Burden moves to the Nebraska frontier to live with his grandparents, where he befriends Ántonia Shimerda, the eldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants.
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10
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The title novella follows an unnamed narrator in wartime New York who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
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Mademoiselle Fifi
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set during the Prussian occupation of France in the 1870s, this collection centers on the titular novella about a cruel Prussian officer nicknamed Mademoiselle Fifi for his effeminate mannerisms.
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12
The Red Badge of Courage
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the American Civil War who enlists with romanticized visions of heroic combat.
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