Books like Hamilton: The Revolution
12 books with a reading profile close to Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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In the Company of the Courtesan
by Sarah Dunant
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The story begins in 1527 during the Sack of Rome, as the luxury-loving prostitute Fiammetta Bianchini and her companion, the dwarf Bucino Teodoldi, escape the city’s destruction.
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Remarkable Creatures
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In early nineteenth-century Lyme Regis, Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot form an unlikely friendship based on their shared pursuit of fossils along the Jurassic Coast.
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Shrines of Gaiety
history, narrative
Set in 1926 London, the narrative centers on Nellie Coker, a ruthless matriarch who operates a profitable empire of underground nightclubs in Soho.
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The Mountains Sing
history, narrative
Hương, a young girl, narrates the Vietnam War through her family's story, as does her grandmother Diệu Lan, who in the 1950s flees land reform in the north with her children.
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China Dolls
by Lisa See
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1938 San Francisco, three young women from different backgrounds—Grace, Helen, and Ruby—meet while auditioning for the Forbidden City nightclub.
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The Glassmaker
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the daughter of a master glassmaker on Murano, the island near Venice where the city's glass is made under strict guild rules.
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The Bookbinder
by Pip Williams
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Peggy Jones works in the bindery of Oxford University Press during the First World War, spending her days folding printed sheets for books she is not permitted to read.
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Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1830s Philadelphia, James Pyke lives as a wealthy white gentleman, concealing his identity as the son of a black runaway from the Pyke plantation.
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The Great Divide
history, narrative
The story reconstructs the construction of the Panama Canal through the intersecting lives of marginalized laborers and local residents.
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Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
history, narrative
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black, known as Wash, is a field hand on a brutal Barbados sugar plantation until he is selected as a laboratory assistant for Christopher Wilde.
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The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The narrative follows dual timelines centered around the real-life "Lost Friends" advertisements placed by formerly enslaved people searching for displaced family members after the American Civil War.
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