Books like Echoes
12 books with a reading profile close to Echoes by Maeve Binchy. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
romance, narrative
Kate Battista, twenty-nine, works as a preschool teaching assistant and keeps house for her father, a scientist in Baltimore, and her flighty younger sister.
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2
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set in Seattle during World War II, the narrative follows Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy caught between his father’s nationalist fervor and his secret bond with Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American classmate.
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3
The Little Paris Bookshop
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Jean Perdu operates a floating bookstore on a barge called the Literary Apothecary, moored on the Seine.
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4
Shopgirl
by Steve Martin
romance, narrative
Mirabelle Buttersfield, a young woman from Vermont, sells gloves at the Neiman Marcus counter in Beverly Hills, lonely and quietly depressed in her Los Angeles apartment.
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5
Why We Broke Up
romance, narrative
Minny Green, a high school junior and film fanatic, writes a lengthy letter to her ex-boyfriend, Ed Slaterton, the school’s star basketball player.
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6
In the Midst of Winter
romance, narrative
In Brooklyn, a snowstorm brings a minor car crash between Richard Bowmaster, a university professor, and Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented Guatemalan woman working as a caregiver.
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7
You Are Here
romance, narrative
Marnie and Michael are two solitary individuals stuck in professional and emotional ruts.
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8
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Salama Kassab is a pharmacy student working as a surgeon in a Homs hospital during the Syrian revolution.
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9
Peony in Love
by Lisa See
romance, narrative
Set in seventeenth-century China, this story follows Peony, a sheltered girl from a wealthy family who becomes obsessed with the opera The Peony Pavilion.
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10
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
In 1946, London writer Juliet Ashton begins a correspondence with Dawsey Adams, a resident of Guernsey who found her name inside a secondhand volume of Charles Lamb.
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11
Emergency Contact
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Penny Lee leaves for college in Austin, Texas, hoping to distance herself from her mother and a stagnant hometown life.
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12
Green Dot
romance, narrative
Hera, a woman in her twenties in Sydney, works a dull job at a magazine and wants to be a writer.
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