Books like Demon Copperhead
12 books with a reading profile close to Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Cutting for Stone
Also deep and inward-looking · history, narrative
The story follows twin brothers Marion and Shiva Stone, born from a clandestine union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in an Addis Ababa mission hospital.
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2
Memphis
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Spanning three generations of a Black family in Memphis, Tennessee, this novel centers on the women of one family, who must handle poverty, domestic violence and racism while keeping alive a sense of faith and creativit…
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3
The Covenant of Water
history, narrative
Spanning seven decades in Kerala, South India, the narrative follows three generations of a family afflicted by a peculiar medical condition known as the Condition.
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4
In the Time of the Butterflies
history, narrative
In 1960, three of the four Mirabal sisters were beaten to death on a road in the Dominican Republic because they had opposed the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
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5
The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
history, narrative
In 1930s British Malaya, Cecily Alcantara works as a low-level clerk while feeling the sting of colonial hierarchy.
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6
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In the small town of Mallard, Louisiana, the light-skinned Vignes twins, Desiree and Stella, grow up in a community that prizes fair complexions.
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All the Light We Cannot See
history, narrative
Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind girl living in Paris, flees to Saint-Malo with her father to escape the Nazi occupation, carrying a precious and potentially cursed diamond from the Museum of Natural History.
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8
Manhattan Beach
history, narrative
Set in New York City during the Great Depression and World War II, the narrative follows Anna Kerrigan as she maneuvers through the male-dominated Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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9
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
Also deep · history, narrative
John Hersey details the immediate and long-term consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima through the experiences of six survivors: a clerk, two doctors, a tailor’s widow, a German priest, and a Methodist pastor.
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10
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C Pam Zhang
Also deep · history, narrative
Set against the declining years of the American Gold Rush, the novel follows Lucy and Sam, two orphaned siblings of Chinese descent, as they carry their father’s decomposing body across a harsh western landscape.
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11
The Mercies
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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12
The Weight of Ink
history, narrative
In 2000s London, historian Helen Watt, who is ill and near retirement, is called to an old house where workers have found a hidden cache of seventeenth-century Jewish papers.
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