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Books like Migrations

12 books with a reading profile close to Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Either/Or

by Elif Batuman

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Set in 1996, the story follows Selin Karadağ during her sophomore year at Harvard as she attempts to construct a life based on aesthetic and literary principles.
2

Infinite Country

by Patricia Engel

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

The narrative follows Elena and Mauro, a Colombian couple who overstay their visas in the United States, and the three children they raise across two nations.
3

Behold the Dreamers

by Imbolo Mbue

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, secures a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, an executive at Lehman Brothers.
4

Writers & Lovers

by Lily King

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
5

Prep

by Curtis Sittenfeld

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

Lee Fiora, a girl from a modest family in Indiana, wins a scholarship to the Ault School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
6

Black Cake

by Charmaine Wilkerson

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

After the death of Eleanor Bennett, her estranged children, Byron and Benny, reunite in California to hear her final recorded message.
7

How I Live Now

by Meg Rosoff

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.
8

Ask Again, Yes

by Mary Beth Keane

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are rookie NYPD officers who buy neighboring houses in a quiet New York suburb.
9

Interesting Facts about Space

by Emily R. Austin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Enid Hoffman is a deaf woman who manages her chronic anxiety through a fixation on space trivia and a compulsive habit of monitoring local crime reports.
10

American Born Chinese

by Gene Luen Yang

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

Gene Luen Yang weaves together three distinct narrative threads to examine the internal conflicts of cultural assimilation.
11

Wonder Boys

by Michael Chabon

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
12

The Berry Pickers

by Amanda Peters

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

In 1962, a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl named Ruthie vanishes from a blueberry field in Maine while her family works the harvest.

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