Books like Dog Songs: Poems
12 books with a reading profile close to Dog Songs: Poems by Mary Oliver. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
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A Man Without a Country
accessible, literary
This collection of short essays serves as a final public address on the state of American life and the health of the planet.
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84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
In 1949, Helene Hanff, a struggling screenwriter in New York City, contacted Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop in London, to track down rare British literature.
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Traumsammler
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
The narrative begins in a small Afghan village where a father tells his children a myth about a giant stealing a beloved son, a story that foreshadows a forced separation.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
Jess Aarons, a fifth-grader living in rural Virginia, spends his summer training to be the fastest runner in his school.
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A Man Called Ove
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
Fifty-nine-year-old Ove is a steadfast misanthropist who enforces neighborhood association rules with militant precision and drives a Saab.
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The Tiger Rising
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
Twelve-year-old Rob Horton lives in a Florida motel with his father, mourning his mother’s death while repressing his grief through a skin rash on his legs.
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
Three thieves hiding in an abandoned general store discover they can communicate with the past through letters left in the store's old mailbox.
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The Thing About Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
After her best friend Franny drowns, twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson stops talking.
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The Secret Life of Bees
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
Set in 1964 South Carolina, the story follows fourteen-year-old Lily Owens, who flees her abusive father and the memory of her mother’s accidental death.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
Nuri is a beekeeper who tends to hives in the Syrian city of Aleppo alongside his wife, Afra, an artist who loses her sight after a bomb kills their young son.
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Mockingbird
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, literary
Ten-year-old Caitlin Ann Smith lives with Asperger’s syndrome in a world of black-and-white rules and literal interpretations.
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