Books like Cold Sassy Tree
12 books with a reading profile close to Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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Violeta
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
Violeta del Valle begins her life during the 1920 influenza pandemic and concludes it amidst the global outbreak of 2020.
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The Only Woman in the Room
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
Hedy Kiesler, a Jewish actress in 1930s Vienna, escapes an abusive marriage to an Austrian arms dealer with close ties to the Nazi regime.
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3
Take My Hand
narrative, literary
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights era nurse Civil Townsend begins working at a federally funded family planning clinic.
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4
Go as a River
by Shelley Read
narrative, literary
Victoria Nash is a seventeen-year-old girl managing her family’s peach orchard in Iola, Colorado, during the 1940s.
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A Long Petal of the Sea
narrative, literary
In the late 1930s, during the final days of the Spanish Civil War, Victor Dalmau, a young army doctor, and Roser Bruguera, a pregnant pianist, flee the advancing fascist forces.
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Run
by Ann Patchett
narrative, literary
Bernard Doyle, a former Boston mayor, has raised his sons Tip and Teddy, who are Black and were adopted, along with his biological son Doyle.
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Sold on a Monday
narrative, literary
Set in Depression-era America, the narrative begins when Ellis Reed, a struggling newspaper reporter, photographs two young children standing next to a sign offering them for sale.
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The Space Between Us
narrative, literary
Sera Dubash is a Parsi woman in Mumbai who has employed Bhima as a maid for over twenty years.
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The Murmur of Bees
narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the narrative follows the Morales family in northern Mexico.
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10
News of the World
narrative, literary
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels across North Texas, reading international newspapers to paying audiences in small towns.
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11
The Seed Keeper
by Diane Wilson
narrative, literary
Rosalie Iron Wing grows up learning the traditional Dakhóta methods of gathering and preserving seeds from her father in the woods of Minnesota.
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
narrative, literary
One morning in the Bronx, eleven-year-old Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Fuzhounese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never returns home.
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