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Books like Matterhorn

12 books with a reading profile close to Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Noticia de un secuestro

by Gabriel García Márquez

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.
2

The Glass Palace

by Amitav Ghosh

Also thought-provoking · 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.
3

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

history, narrative

John Hersey details the immediate and long-term consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima through the experiences of six survivors: a clerk, two doctors, a tailor’s widow, a German priest, and a Methodist pastor.
4

Island Beneath the Sea

by Isabel Allende

Also thought-provoking · history, narrative

Zarité, a young girl sold into slavery in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue, navigates the brutal sugar plantations owned by Toulouse Valmorain.
5

The Book of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill

Also thought-provoking · history, narrative

Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
6

In the Time of the Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez

Also thought-provoking · 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.
7

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

Also thought-provoking · history, narrative

Set in Jim Crow Florida, the story follows Elwood Curtis, a studious teenager who adheres to Dr.
8

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Also thought-provoking · history, narrative

Ifemelu and Obinze are young lovers in military-ruled Nigeria who depart the country for different hemispheres.
9

The Buddha in the Attic

by Julie Otsuka

Also thought-provoking · history, narrative

Julie Otsuka tells the collective history of "picture brides" who traveled from Japan to San Francisco in the early 1900s.
10

The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese

Also thought-provoking · 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.
11

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

Also thought-provoking · 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.
12

Manhattan Beach

by Jennifer Egan

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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