Books like Flight Behavior
12 books with a reading profile close to Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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2
March
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This novel reimagines the American Civil War from the perspective of John March, the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
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3
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, navigates a single day in London during the massive 2003 protests against the Iraq War.
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4
Arcadia
by Lauren Groff
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Bit Arcadia is born in a commune in upstate New York in the 1970s, the first child born there.
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5
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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6
The Safekeep
narrative, literary
In 1961 Overijssel, Isabel lives a life defined by rigid routine and the preservation of her late mother’s isolated country estate.
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7
The Family Fang
by Kevin Wilson
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Caleb and Camille Fang are performance artists who use their children, Annie and Buster, in public acts of disruption that they call art, creating scenes of chaos in malls and restaurants.
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8
Clear
by Carys Davies
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in 1843 during the final stages of the Highland Clearances, the story follows John Ferguson, an impoverished minister sent to a remote Shetland island to evict its last remaining inhabitant.
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9
Colored Television
by Danzy Senna
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jane, a biracial novelist living in Los Angeles, struggles to finish her second book after a decade of labor.
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10
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
by Renée Nault
narrative, literary
In this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s narrative, Offred navigates the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, a regime that has replaced the United States government with a strict religious hierarchy.
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11
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
John Berry grows up in a family led by his father Win, an eccentric dreamer who buys a failing New Hampshire hotel and wants to turn it into a family business.
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12
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
These twelve stories, written over eighteen years, are about Latin Americans who find themselves in Europe, mainly in Barcelona, Rome, Geneva and Paris.
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