Books like Flush
12 books with a reading profile close to Flush by Virginia Woolf, Eileen Atkins, Katyuli Lloyd, Jose KING, Jordi Fernando, Rafael Vázquez Zamora. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Set along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, these interconnected novels follow the lives of two boys navigating the constraints of antebellum society.
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2
Mademoiselle Fifi
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
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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3
Bless Me, Ultima
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
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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4
Shirley
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
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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5
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
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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6
The Red Badge of Courage
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the American Civil War who enlists with romanticized visions of heroic combat.
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7
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.
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The Book of Longings
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
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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9
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
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10
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Set in early twentieth-century Maine, the narrative follows Homer Wells, a perpetual orphan raised at St.
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11
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
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12
Prodigal Summer
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
In the humid mountains of southern Appalachia, three narrative threads intersect through the lens of evolutionary biology and ecological interdependence.
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