Books like Captain Corelli's Mandolin
12 books with a reading profile close to Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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Of Love and Shadows
history, romance
Irene Beltrán is a journalist from a wealthy family in a Latin American country ruled by a military dictatorship.
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The Invisible Bridge
history, romance
Set in 1937, the story follows Andras Lévi, a Jewish Hungarian architecture student who travels from Budapest to Paris on a scholarship.
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Of Women and Salt
Also contemplative · history, narrative
Spanning from nineteenth-century Cuban cigar factories to a modern-day detention center in Texas, the narrative follows five generations of women linked by blood and migration.
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The Lacuna
history, narrative
The novel follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man navigating the political upheaval of mid-twentieth-century Mexico and the United States.
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
romance, narrative
Sonia and Sunny are two individuals navigating the isolation of contemporary urban life while attempting to maintain a long-distance connection.
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The Covenant of Water
history, narrative
Spanning seven decades in Kerala, South India, the narrative follows three generations of a family afflicted by a peculiar medical condition known as the Condition.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Also contemplative · history, narrative
Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind girl living in Paris, flees to Saint-Malo with her father to escape the Nazi occupation, carrying a precious and potentially cursed diamond from the Museum of Natural History.
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Matrix
by Lauren Groff
history, narrative
Cast out from the royal court of Eleanor of Aquitaine, seventeen-year-old Marie of France arrives at a destitute English abbey to serve as its new prioress.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
history, romance
Sold by her father in the 1930s, nine-year-old Chiyo enters an okiya in Kyoto’s Gion district to work as a servant.
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Cold Mountain
romance, narrative
In the final stages of the American Civil War, a Confederate soldier named Inman deserts his hospital ward to walk hundreds of miles back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
history, narrative
Set in London during and immediately after the Second World War, the narrative moves backward in time from 1947 to 1941.
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