Books like Memoirs of a Geisha
12 books with a reading profile close to Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Homeseeking
by Karissa Chen
history, romance
The story follows Mei-hua and her family as they navigate the shifting borders and political upheavals of twentieth-century East Asia.
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2
The Invisible Bridge
history, romance
Set in 1937, the story follows Andras Lévi, a Jewish Hungarian architecture student who travels from Budapest to Paris on a scholarship.
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3
Only the Beautiful
history, romance
This novel follows two women connected by blood and tragedy during the mid-twentieth century.
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4
Of Love and Shadows
history, romance
Irene Beltrán is a journalist from a wealthy family in a Latin American country ruled by a military dictatorship.
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5
The Other Bennet Sister
romance, narrative
Mary Bennet occupies the margins of the Longbourn household, dismissed by her mother for her plainness and overlooked by her sisters.
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6
The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
history, romance
Set in 1940, this story follows three women on opposite sides of the Atlantic as the Second World War intensifies.
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7
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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8
Here on Earth
romance, narrative
March Murray returns with her teenage daughter Gwen to her childhood home in a coastal Massachusetts town after a death in the family.
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9
The Magic Fish
romance, narrative
Tiên is a Vietnamese-American teenager who shares a love for fairy tales with his mother, Hiền.
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10
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
romance, narrative
Set in early twentieth-century New York, this novel follows Coralie Sardie, the daughter of a sinister museum proprietor who exhibits biological anomalies on Coney Island.
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11
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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12
The Gargoyle
romance, narrative
A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.
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