Books like Homeland and Other Stories
12 books with a reading profile close to Homeland and Other Stories by Barbara Kingsolver. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Animal Dreams
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Codi Noline returns to her rural Arizona hometown to care for her father, a doctor descending into Alzheimer’s disease.
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2
How the García girls lost their accents
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The narrative follows the four García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—as they flee the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic to settle in New York City.
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3
Inseparable
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
This autobiographical novel tracks the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, fictionalized versions of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin.
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Fidelis Waldvogel returns to Germany from the First World War with a sniper's skill and a plan to become a butcher like his father.
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5
Year of Wonders
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
In 1665, a tailor in the isolated English village of Eyam receives a parcel of cloth from London infested with plague-carrying fleas.
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March
Also thought-provoking · 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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One Two Three
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
In the small town of Bourne, the Mitchell triplets—Mab, Monday, and Mirabel—navigate lives shaped by a legacy of environmental poisoning.
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The Pull of the Stars
narrative, literary
The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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9
The Wife
by Meg Wolitzer
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Joan Castleman has stood beside her husband Joe, a celebrated novelist, for decades.
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10
Honor
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.
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The Samurai's Garden
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Stephen, a young Chinese man who has been ill, goes in 1937 to his family's summer house in Tarumi, a Japanese seaside village, to recover.
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12
The Unseen World
by Liz Moore
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.
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