Books like Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
12 books with a reading profile close to Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Marvels
by Kurt Busiek
history, narrative
Phil Sheldon, a news photographer, witnesses the emergence of the superhero era in mid-twentieth-century New York.
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Horse
history, narrative
Geraldine Brooks tracks the history of Lexington, a record-breaking 19th-century Thoroughbred, across three distinct timelines.
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The Book of Negroes
history, narrative
Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
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Shrines of Gaiety
history, narrative
Set in 1926 London, the narrative centers on Nellie Coker, a ruthless matriarch who operates a profitable empire of underground nightclubs in Soho.
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Caleb's Crossing
history, narrative
Set in the 1660s on Martha's Vineyard, then called Great Harbor, the novel follows Bethia Mayfield, a minister’s daughter who forms a secret friendship with Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain.
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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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Island Beneath the Sea
history, narrative
Zarité, a young girl sold into slavery in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue, navigates the brutal sugar plantations owned by Toulouse Valmorain.
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Skeletons at the Feast
history, narrative
In January 1945, as the Red Army advances toward East Prussia, the Emmerich family, who run an estate, decide to flee west.
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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
history, narrative
In this work of historical fiction, Philip Roth reimagines the 1940 United States presidential election.
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El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
history, narrative
Irene Vallejo chronicles the evolution of the written word from oral traditions to the codex, focusing on the Mediterranean civilizations of Rome and Greece.
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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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