Books like Fourteen Days
12 books with a reading profile close to Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston, Celeste Ng, John Grisham, Meg Wolitzer. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
narrative, accessible
Set in the late nineteenth century during the compilation of the first Oxford English Dictionary, Esme Nicoll grows up beneath the sorting table where her father and other lexicographers classify words.
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2
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
narrative, accessible
Set in the rural English village of Edgecombe St.
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3
The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
narrative, accessible
Set on the Korean island of Jeju, this novel follows the lifelong friendship between Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls who join a collective of haenyeo female divers.
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4
The Invention of Wings
narrative, accessible
The story follows Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy Charleston judge, and Hetty "Handful," the enslaved girl gifted to Sarah on her eleventh birthday.
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5
Elsewhere
narrative, accessible
Fifteen-year-old Liz Hall dies in a hit-and-run accident and wakes up on a ship heading to Elsewhere, a land where the dead age backward toward infancy.
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6
Redhead by the Side of the Road
by Anne Tyler
narrative, accessible
Micah Mortimer is a fortyish self-employed tech specialist who functions through a rigid schedule and an obsession with household order.
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7
The Boston Girl
narrative, accessible
The novel follows Addie Baum, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, as she recounts her life story to her granddaughter in 1985.
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8
This Tender Land
narrative, accessible
In 1932, orphans Odie and Albert O’Banion flee the Lincoln School in Minnesota, a state-run institution where Native American children face systemic abuse.
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9
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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10
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
narrative, accessible
On New Year’s Eve in 1937, legal secretary Katey Kontent and her roommate Eve Ross meet a wealthy banker named Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz hole.
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11
Ask Again, Yes
narrative, accessible
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are rookie NYPD officers who buy neighboring houses in a quiet New York suburb.
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12
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo Kelby lives on a struggling Oklahoma wheat farm during the Great Depression.
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