Books like In the Midst of Winter
12 books with a reading profile close to In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
romance, narrative
Kate Battista, twenty-nine, works as a preschool teaching assistant and keeps house for her father, a scientist in Baltimore, and her flighty younger sister.
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2
Girl with a Pearl Earring
romance, narrative
In seventeenth-century Delft, sixteen-year-old Griet enters the household of Johannes Vermeer as a quiet, observant maid.
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3
Peony in Love
by Lisa See
romance, narrative
Set in seventeenth-century China, this story follows Peony, a sheltered girl from a wealthy family who becomes obsessed with the opera The Peony Pavilion.
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4
You Are Here
romance, narrative
Marnie and Michael are two solitary individuals stuck in professional and emotional ruts.
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5
Echoes
by Maeve Binchy
romance, narrative
Set in the 1950s seaside town of Castlebay, the story centers on Clare O’Brien, a shopkeeper's daughter, and David Power, the son of the local doctor.
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6
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
romance, narrative
Set in Seattle during World War II, the narrative follows Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy caught between his father’s nationalist fervor and his secret bond with Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American classmate.
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7
September
romance, narrative
Set in the Scottish Highlands during a transitional autumn, the narrative centers on an upcoming twenty-first birthday dance hosted by Verena and Angus Steynton.
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8
Why We Broke Up
romance, narrative
Minny Green, a high school junior and film fanatic, writes a lengthy letter to her ex-boyfriend, Ed Slaterton, the school’s star basketball player.
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9
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
romance, narrative
In 1946, London writer Juliet Ashton begins a correspondence with Dawsey Adams, a resident of Guernsey who found her name inside a secondhand volume of Charles Lamb.
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10
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
by Coco Mellors
romance, narrative
Twenty-four-year-old Cleo, a British painter living in New York on an expiring student visa, impulsively marries Frank, an advertising executive twenty years her senior.
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11
Shopgirl
by Steve Martin
romance, narrative
Mirabelle Buttersfield, a young woman from Vermont, sells gloves at the Neiman Marcus counter in Beverly Hills, lonely and quietly depressed in her Los Angeles apartment.
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12
The Little Paris Bookshop
romance, narrative
Jean Perdu operates a floating bookstore on a barge called the Literary Apothecary, moored on the Seine.
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