Books like Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
12 books with a reading profile close to Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton. Inward-looking, contemplative, clear-cut and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Francie Nolan grows up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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2
The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Della and Jim Young are a young married couple in New York who are very poor.
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3
Crossing to Safety
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Wallace Stegner’s final novel tracks the lifelong bond between two couples, Larry and Sally McKelvey and Charity and Sid Lang, beginning in 1937 Madison, Wisconsin.
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4
The Enchanted April
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Living in the persistent grey of 1920s London, Lotty Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot answer a classified advertisement for a month-long rental at an Italian castle.
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5
Rubyfruit Jungle
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Molly Bolt grows up in impoverished rural Florida and York, Pennsylvania, refusing to conform to the expectations of her adoptive mother or the social dictates of the mid-twentieth century.
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6
A Lesson Before Dying
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In 1940s Louisiana, Jefferson, a young Black man, is wrongly convicted of murder after being present during a store robbery, and his lawyer compares him to a hog to save him.
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7
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Also contemplative and clear-cut · narrative, literary
This collection centers on Ebenezer Scrooge, a parsimonious financier in Victorian London who views charity as a waste of resources.
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8
Kitchen
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Mikage Sakurai is a young woman struggling with the isolating vacuum of grief after her last living relative dies.
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9
The Red Pony
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Jody Tiflin is a young boy growing up on his father’s California ranch, where he learns the rigid realities of life and death through his relationship with a red pony named Gabilan.
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10
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Six-year-old Sophia and her elderly grandmother spend their summer months on a tiny, granite island in the Gulf of Finland.
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11
The Little Match Girl
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
On a freezing New Year’s Eve, a young girl wanders the streets barefoot, unable to return home because she has not sold any matches.
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12
Ham on Rye
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Chinaski grows up in Los Angeles in the 1930s with a father who beats him and a mother who looks away.
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