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Books like Booth

12 books with a reading profile close to Booth by Karen Joy Fowler. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

by Margaret Atwood

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
2

Arcadia

by Lauren Groff

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Bit Arcadia is born in a commune in upstate New York in the 1970s, the first child born there.
3

March

by Geraldine Brooks

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

This novel reimagines the American Civil War from the perspective of John March, the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
4

Saturday

by Ian McEwan

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, navigates a single day in London during the massive 2003 protests against the Iraq War.
5

Brick Lane

by Monica Ali

Also 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.
6

The Hotel New Hampshire

by John Irving

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

John Berry grows up in a family led by his father Win, an eccentric dreamer who buys a failing New Hampshire hotel and wants to turn it into a family business.
7

The little disturbances of man

by Grace Paley

Also 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.
8

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

by Sherman Alexie

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Sherman Alexie's linked stories follow Native American characters on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State.
9

Salvage the Bones

by Jesmyn Ward

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Set in the humid landscape of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, the narrative follows fifteen-year-old Esch and her three brothers during the twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.
10

Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless farm wife in rural Tennessee, discovers a valley filled with millions of monarch butterflies that have deviated from their typical migration path to Mexico.
11

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

by Kate Atkinson

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Ruby Lennox begins her story at the moment of her conception in 1951 in York, and narrates her family's history through her own eyes.
12

Dancing girls and other stories

by Margaret Atwood

Also 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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