Books like Longbourn
12 books with a reading profile close to Longbourn by Jo Baker. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
The Marriage of Opposites
history, narrative
Set on the island of Saint Thomas in the early nineteenth century, this novel follows Rachel Pomie, a woman born into a strict Sephardic Jewish community.
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2
The Last Runaway
history, narrative
In 1850, Honor Bright, a modest Quaker from Dorset, migrates to Ohio to escape a broken engagement.
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3
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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4
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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5
The Lady and the Unicorn
history, narrative
In 1490s Paris, nobleman Jean Le Viste commissions a set of six tapestries to display his status.
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6
The Wind Knows My Name
history, narrative
In 1938 Vienna, Samuel Adler is a five-year-old Jewish boy whose father disappears on Kristallnacht, and who is sent to England on the Kindertransport.
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7
Echo
history, narrative
The narrative begins with a fairy tale prologue centered on an enchanted harmonica and a prophecy to save three lost souls.
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8
The Chaperone
history, narrative
In 1922, Cora Carlisle, a conventional Kansas housewife, agrees to chaperone fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks on a summer trip to New York City.
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9
The Women in the Castle
history, narrative
Set in the immediate aftermath of World War II, this novel follows Marianne von Lingenfels, the widow of a German resistance fighter executed for his role in the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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10
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
history, narrative
Set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the narrative follows two city-bred teenagers, Luo and the unnamed narrator, who are sent to a remote mountain village for forced Maoist re-education.
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11
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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12
The 19th Wife
history, narrative
This novel weaves together two timelines to examine the history and modern reality of polygamy in the American West.
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