Books like China Dolls
12 books with a reading profile close to China Dolls by Lisa See. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
The Glassmaker
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the daughter of a master glassmaker on Murano, the island near Venice where the city's glass is made under strict guild rules.
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2
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1830s Philadelphia, James Pyke lives as a wealthy white gentleman, concealing his identity as the son of a black runaway from the Pyke plantation.
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3
The Bookbinder
by Pip Williams
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Peggy Jones works in the bindery of Oxford University Press during the First World War, spending her days folding printed sheets for books she is not permitted to read.
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4
Remarkable Creatures
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In early nineteenth-century Lyme Regis, Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot form an unlikely friendship based on their shared pursuit of fossils along the Jurassic Coast.
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5
The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The narrative follows dual timelines centered around the real-life "Lost Friends" advertisements placed by formerly enslaved people searching for displaced family members after the American Civil War.
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6
The Women in the Castle
history, narrative
Set in the immediate aftermath of World War II, this novel follows Marianne von Lingenfels, the widow of a German resistance fighter executed for his role in the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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7
In the Company of the Courtesan
by Sarah Dunant
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The story begins in 1527 during the Sack of Rome, as the luxury-loving prostitute Fiammetta Bianchini and her companion, the dwarf Bucino Teodoldi, escape the city’s destruction.
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8
The Marriage of Opposites
history, narrative
Set on the island of Saint Thomas in the early nineteenth century, this novel follows Rachel Pomie, a woman born into a strict Sephardic Jewish community.
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9
Whistling Past the Graveyard
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla Caudill, a spirited girl with a hard home life, runs away.
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10
The Great Divide
history, narrative
The story reconstructs the construction of the Panama Canal through the intersecting lives of marginalized laborers and local residents.
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11
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Margaret George captures the life of England’s most notorious monarch through a fictionalized memoir discovered centuries after his death.
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12
River Sing Me Home
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in the aftermath of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act in the Caribbean, the story follows Rachel, a field hand on a Barbados plantation.
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