Books like Caramelo
12 books with a reading profile close to Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy, Margaret R. Higonnet
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman living in the rural English countryside, discovers her family descends from the aristocratic d’Urberville line.
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2
Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
This collection centers on the titular novella set in the fictional town of Macondo, narrated through the perspectives of a colonel, his daughter, and his grandson.
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3
The Marriage Plot
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in the early 1980s, the story follows three Brown University graduates navigating the transition to adulthood.
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4
The English Patient
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in a ruined Tuscan villa during the final stages of the Second World War, the narrative centers on four fractured lives brought together by circumstance.
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The Winter's Tale
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
King Leontes of Sicily falls into a sudden, irrational jealousy, accusing his pregnant wife Hermione of adultery with his childhood friend, King Polixenes.
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6
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
John Wheelwright narrates the life of his best friend, Owen Meany, a boy with a high-pitched voice who accidentally kills John’s mother with a foul ball during a Little League game in 1953.
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The Stone Diaries
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Daisy Goodwill Flett is born in 1905 in a Manitoba limestone quarry town, her mother dying in childbirth without knowing she was pregnant.
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8
The Lowland
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Subhash and Udayan are brothers born in Calcutta, separated by temperament and political conviction.
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9
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in a crumbling house in the Himalayas against the 1980s Gorkhaland insurgency, the narrative follows Biju and Sai.
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10
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in 1930s Harlem, the narrative centers on John Grimes, a fourteen-year-old navigating a spiritual crisis during his birthday weekend.
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11
The Sun Also Rises
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris, lives with a physical wound from the Great War that leaves him impotent.
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Villette, a novel
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Lucy Snowe, a young woman without family or financial security, travels to the fictional Belgian city of Villette to become a teacher at a girls’ boarding school.
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