Books like Dream Count
12 books with a reading profile close to Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Another Brooklyn
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
In the 1970s, August moves from Tennessee to Bushwick, Brooklyn, after the death of her mother.
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2
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Pearl Tull is abandoned by her husband Beck and raises three children, Cody, Ezra and Jenny, in Baltimore on her own, with a mix of strictness and bitterness.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ruby Lennox begins her story at the moment of her conception in 1951 in York, and narrates her family's history through her own eyes.
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4
A Spool of Blue Thread
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Redniss Street in Baltimore is where the Whitshank family history anchors itself, centered on a wooden house built by their patriarch.
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5
The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Winnie Louie has kept her past secret from her Chinese American daughter, Pearl, who in turn is hiding her own diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
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Nocturns
by Kazuo Ishiguro, Albert Torrescasana Flotats
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Nocturns is a collection of five interconnected short stories centered on musicians and the professional anxieties of the creative life.
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Inseparable
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
This autobiographical novel tracks the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, fictionalized versions of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin.
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Fidelis Waldvogel returns to Germany from the First World War with a sniper's skill and a plan to become a butcher like his father.
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9
The Thing Around Your Neck
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2009 collection consists of twelve stories documenting the experiences of Nigerians navigating life in their home country and as immigrants in the United States.
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10
So Late in the Day
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
On a bright Friday in Dublin, Cathal sits at his office desk counting down the hours until the workday ends.
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11
We the Animals
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Three brothers, the youngest of whom narrates, grow up in upstate New York with a Puerto Rican father and a white mother who love them fiercely and also hurt them.
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12
The little disturbances of man
by Grace Paley
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the cramped apartments and bustling streets of mid-century New York City, these short stories focus on the domestic lives of Jewish women navigating family friction and romantic disappointment.
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