Books like Hiroshima
12 books with a reading profile close to Hiroshima by John Hersey. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
Matterhorn
history, narrative
Karl Marlantes’ novel follows Second Lieutenant Mellas and Bravo Company during the Vietnam War in 1969.
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2
Noticia de un secuestro
history, narrative
Gabriel García Márquez reconstructs the 1990 abductions of ten prominent Colombian citizens by the Extraditables, a group led by Pablo Escobar to pressure the government into banning extradition to the United States.
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3
Manhattan Beach
history, narrative
Set in New York City during the Great Depression and World War II, the narrative follows Anna Kerrigan as she maneuvers through the male-dominated Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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4
All the Light We Cannot See
history, narrative
Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind girl living in Paris, flees to Saint-Malo with her father to escape the Nazi occupation, carrying a precious and potentially cursed diamond from the Museum of Natural History.
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5
In the Time of the Butterflies
history, narrative
In 1960, three of the four Mirabal sisters were beaten to death on a road in the Dominican Republic because they had opposed the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
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6
Americanah
Also deep · history, narrative
Ifemelu and Obinze are young lovers in military-ruled Nigeria who depart the country for different hemispheres.
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7
The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
history, narrative
Amitav Ghosh's novel starts with the British conquest of Mandalay in 1885, when the royal family of Burma is exiled to India.
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8
The Nickel Boys
history, narrative
Set in Jim Crow Florida, the story follows Elwood Curtis, a studious teenager who adheres to Dr.
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9
Island Beneath the Sea
history, narrative
Zarité, a young girl sold into slavery in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue, navigates the brutal sugar plantations owned by Toulouse Valmorain.
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10
The Book of Negroes
history, narrative
Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
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11
Demon Copperhead
Also deep · history, narrative
In the mountains of southern Appalachia, a boy nicknamed Demon Copperhead is born to a teenage mother in a single-wide trailer.
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12
The Covenant of Water
history, narrative
Spanning seven decades in Kerala, South India, the narrative follows three generations of a family afflicted by a peculiar medical condition known as the Condition.
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