Books like News of the World
12 books with a reading profile close to News of the World by Paulette Jiles. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Murmur of Bees
narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the narrative follows the Morales family in northern Mexico.
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2
Take My Hand
narrative, literary
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights era nurse Civil Townsend begins working at a federally funded family planning clinic.
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3
The Red Garden
narrative, literary
Blackwell, Massachusetts, is a small town in the Berkshires founded in the 1750s by settlers who endure a brutal first winter.
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4
Run
by Ann Patchett
narrative, literary
Bernard Doyle, a former Boston mayor, has raised his sons Tip and Teddy, who are Black and were adopted, along with his biological son Doyle.
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5
The Pull of the Stars
narrative, literary
The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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6
People of the Book
narrative, literary
Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book conservator, travels to Sarajevo in 1996 to restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, a fourteenth-century Hebrew manuscript.
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7
The Signature of All Things
narrative, literary
Alma Whittaker, the daughter of a wealthy botanical importer, spends the nineteenth century studying the intricate world of mosses on her family’s Philadelphia estate.
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8
The Female Persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
narrative, literary
The narrative tracks Greer Kadetsky, a college student whose life shifts after she meets Faith Frank, a central figure in the second-wave feminist movement.
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9
The Unseen World
by Liz Moore
narrative, literary
Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.
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10
The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
narrative, literary
One morning in the Bronx, eleven-year-old Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Fuzhounese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never returns home.
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11
Go as a River
by Shelley Read
narrative, literary
Victoria Nash is a seventeen-year-old girl managing her family’s peach orchard in Iola, Colorado, during the 1940s.
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12
Honor
narrative, literary
Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.
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