Books like Crónica de una muerte anunciada
12 books with a reading profile close to Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Gabriel García Márquez, Francis Salvery, Arthur Daniel. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
In a small Colombian town, Santiago Nasar is murdered by the Vicario twins to restore their family's honor after their sister, Angela, claims he took her virginity.
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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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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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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
The title novella follows an unnamed narrator in wartime New York who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
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ILL - One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
In Dale Wasserman’s 1970 stage adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel, the narrative centers on Randle P.
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Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
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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The Winter of Our Discontent
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
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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Great Gatsby
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Jay Gatsby spends his life accumulating wealth through criminal channels to reclaim a past romance with Daisy Buchanan.
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La tregua
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office worker, is nearing retirement.
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Bless Me, Ultima
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Six-year-old Antonio Márez grows up in a New Mexico village in the 1940s, in a household divided between his father's wandering family and his mother's farming one.
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
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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