Books like Elizabeth and Her German Garden
12 books with a reading profile close to Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim, Ulrich Baer. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Mademoiselle Fifi
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set during the Prussian occupation of France in the 1870s, this collection centers on the titular novella about a cruel Prussian officer nicknamed Mademoiselle Fifi for his effeminate mannerisms.
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The Red Badge of Courage
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the American Civil War who enlists with romanticized visions of heroic combat.
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3
The Book of Longings
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ana is the daughter of a wealthy advisor to Herod Antipas, living in a patriarchal society that forbids women from reading and writing.
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Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Dana Yarboro knows her father, James Witherspoon, has another family.
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5
Bless Me, Ultima
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Six-year-old Antonio Márez grows up in a New Mexico village in the 1940s, in a household divided between his father's wandering family and his mother's farming one.
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Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
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7
Empire Falls
narrative, literary
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill, a greasy spoon in a decaying Maine logging town owned by the wealthy Whiting family.
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8
Home Fire
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Isma Pasha raises her younger twin siblings, Aneeka and Parvaiz, in London after their jihadist father dies in transit to Guantanamo Bay.
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9
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jim Burden moves to the Nebraska frontier to live with his grandparents, where he befriends Ántonia Shimerda, the eldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants.
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O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, literary
Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, inherits her father’s struggling farm amid a harsh prairie landscape.
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11
Shirley
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
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Hag-Seed
narrative, literary
Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.
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