Books like Chronicle of a Death Foretold
12 books with a reading profile close to Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Crónica de una muerte anunciada
by Gabriel García Márquez, Francis Salvery
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
In a small Caribbean town, the Vicario twins openly declare their intention to kill Santiago Nasar to restore their sister Angela’s lost honor.
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The Shadow of the Wind
narrative, mystery
In 1945 Barcelona, a young boy named Daniel Sempere is initiated into the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a hidden labyrinthine library.
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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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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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Our Man in Havana
narrative, mystery
Jim Wormold is an English vacuum cleaner salesman in 1950s Havana, struggling to pay for his daughter's expensive tastes.
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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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The Round House
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
In 1988 on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts seeks justice after a violent physical and sexual assault leaves his mother, Geraldine, traumatized and silent.
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All My Sons
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the immediate aftermath of World War II, this drama centers on Joe Keller, a successful manufacturer who escaped conviction for shipping defective airplane cylinder heads that caused the deaths of twenty-one pilo…
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
After the funeral of Molly Lane, her two former lovers—Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor—forge a mutual euthanasia pact to avoid a similar cognitive decline.
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ILL - One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In Dale Wasserman’s 1970 stage adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel, the narrative centers on Randle P.
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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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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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