Books like Inland
12 books with a reading profile close to Inland by Téa Obreht. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
by Renée Nault
narrative, literary
In this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s narrative, Offred navigates the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, a regime that has replaced the United States government with a strict religious hierarchy.
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2
The Safekeep
narrative, literary
In 1961 Overijssel, Isabel lives a life defined by rigid routine and the preservation of her late mother’s isolated country estate.
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3
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
narrative, literary
Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, navigates a single day in London during the massive 2003 protests against the Iraq War.
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4
Colored Television
by Danzy Senna
narrative, literary
Jane, a biracial novelist living in Los Angeles, struggles to finish her second book after a decade of labor.
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5
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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6
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
narrative, literary
In a reimagined United States, the Personhood Amendment has abolished abortion, banned in vitro fertilization, and criminalized the transport of embryos.
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7
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
narrative, literary
John Berry grows up in a family led by his father Win, an eccentric dreamer who buys a failing New Hampshire hotel and wants to turn it into a family business.
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8
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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9
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
narrative, literary
These twelve stories, written over eighteen years, are about Latin Americans who find themselves in Europe, mainly in Barcelona, Rome, Geneva and Paris.
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10
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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11
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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12
The Line of Beauty
Also deep · narrative, literary
Nick Guest, a young gay man obsessed with Henry James and aesthetic perfection, moves into the Notting Hill attic of the Fedden family during the height of the Thatcher era.
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