Books like Great Circle
12 books with a reading profile close to Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
The People in the Trees
Also deep · dense, narrative
Norton Perina, an ambitious young immunologist, travels to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in 1950 to investigate a lost tribe.
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2
Middlesex
Also deep · dense, narrative
Callie Stephanides grows up in mid-century Detroit as a girl, unaware that she carries a rare genetic mutation inherited from her Greek grandparents.
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3
The Eighth Life
dense, narrative
Spanning the twentieth century, this family saga begins in Georgia in the early 1900s with a chocolate maker's recipe, a hot drink said to be so delicious it carries a curse, that passes down generations of the Jashi fa…
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4
The Sea
Also deep · dense, narrative
Max Morden, a retired art historian, returns to the Irish seaside town of Ballyless following the death of his wife, Anna.
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5
We Do Not Part
by Han Kang
Also deep · dense, narrative
The narrative follows Gyeong-ha, a novelist in Seoul struggling with the psychological aftermath of writing a book about a historical massacre.
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6
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
Also deep · dense, narrative
The narrative follows the Barnes family in an Irish town as they face financial ruin following the 2008 economic crash.
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7
Flight Behavior
narrative, literary
Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless farm wife in rural Tennessee, discovers a valley filled with millions of monarch butterflies that have deviated from their typical migration path to Mexico.
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8
The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
Also deep · dense, narrative
Set in Alexandria, Mississippi, during the 1970s, the story follows twelve-year-old Harriet Cleve Dufresnes as she attempts to solve the decade-old murder of her brother, Robin.
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9
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Also deep · dense, narrative
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative follows Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley as they navigate British high society.
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10
Doctor Zhivago
Also deep · dense, narrative
Set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil War, the narrative follows Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet who struggles to maintain his medical ethics and artistic integrity amidst social…
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11
March
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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12
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Also deep · dense, narrative
Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up navigating the expectations of her middle-class Black family while spending summers in a small Georgia town.
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