Books like Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
12 books with a reading profile close to Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Snow Falling on Cedars
narrative, mystery
Set in 1954 on the fictional San Piedro Island, the narrative centers on the murder trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American fisherman accused of killing Carl Heine.
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2
De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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3
The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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4
Disappearing Earth
narrative, mystery
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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5
Three Daughters of Eve
by Elif Shafak
philosophy, narrative
Peri is an Istanbul housewife in her thirties, married with a child, who is at a dinner party when a mugger takes her bag and she chases him.
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6
The Wonder
narrative, mystery
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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7
Greenwood
narrative, mystery
The novel follows the Greenwood family across four generations, structured like the rings of a tree from 2038 back to 1908.
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8
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
philosophy, narrative
Ray Smith, a fictionalized version of Kerouac, navigates the contrast between urban jazz parties and the solitude of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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9
Deacon King Kong
narrative, mystery
Set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969, the story begins when Sportcoat, an aging, hard-drinking church deacon, shoots a young drug dealer named Deems Clemens in broad daylight.
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10
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
narrative, mystery
Maali Almeida, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man, wakes up dead in a visa office in the afterlife with no idea how he died.
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11
Elena Knows
narrative, mystery
Elena, an aging woman in Argentina, navigates the physical rigidity caused by advanced Parkinson's disease to investigate her daughter Rita’s death.
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12
The Solitaire Mystery
philosophy, narrative
Hans Thomas travels with his father from Norway to Greece to find his long-lost mother.
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