Books like Either/Or
12 books with a reading profile close to Either/Or by Elif Batuman. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Migrations
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Franny Stone travels to Greenland to track the final migration of Arctic terns, a species nearing extinction in a world depleted of wildlife.
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2
How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.
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3
Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, secures a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, an executive at Lehman Brothers.
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In a nameless South American country, a lavish birthday party for Japanese mogul Katsumi Hosokawa ends in a prolonged hostage crisis.
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Writers & Lovers
by Lily King
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
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6
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Toby Fleishman is a forty-one-year-old hepatologist navigating the immediate aftermath of a bitter divorce in Manhattan.
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Wonder Boys
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
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Black Cake
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
After the death of Eleanor Bennett, her estranged children, Byron and Benny, reunite in California to hear her final recorded message.
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The story begins at a 1960s christening party in Southern California, where a chance kiss between Bert Cousins and Beverly Keating leads to the dissolution of two marriages.
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10
Infinite Country
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The narrative follows Elena and Mauro, a Colombian couple who overstay their visas in the United States, and the three children they raise across two nations.
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Interesting Facts about Space
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Enid Hoffman is a deaf woman who manages her chronic anxiety through a fixation on space trivia and a compulsive habit of monitoring local crime reports.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
narrative, accessible
In 1972, workers digging a foundation in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, discover a skeleton at the bottom of a well.
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