Books like Peace Like a River
12 books with a reading profile close to Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
The Palace of Illusions
narrative, classic literature
This retelling of the Mahabharata is narrated by Panchaali, also called Draupadi, who emerges from a sacrificial fire to marry the five Pandava brothers.
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2
The Book of Longings
narrative, classic literature
Ana is the daughter of a wealthy advisor to Herod Antipas, living in a patriarchal society that forbids women from reading and writing.
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3
Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
narrative, classic literature
Dana Yarboro knows her father, James Witherspoon, has another family.
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4
The Red Pony
Also contemplative · narrative, classic literature
Jody Tiflin is a young boy growing up on his father’s California ranch, where he learns the rigid realities of life and death through his relationship with a red pony named Gabilan.
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5
The Sweetness of Water
Also contemplative · narrative, classic literature
Set in late-Reconstruction Georgia, the narrative follows Prentiss and Landry, two brothers recently freed from slavery who seek employment on George Walker’s farm.
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6
Empire Falls
narrative, classic literature
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill, a greasy spoon in a decaying Maine logging town owned by the wealthy Whiting family.
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7
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, classic literature
Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, inherits her father’s struggling farm amid a harsh prairie landscape.
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8
The Marriage Portrait
narrative, classic literature
In sixteenth-century Florence, Lucrezia di Cosimo de' Medici is forced to marry Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, following the sudden death of her older sister.
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9
Hag-Seed
narrative, classic literature
Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.
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10
By Any Other Name
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, classic literature
This novel follows two women separated by centuries who both navigate the constraints placed on female authorship.
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11
The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
narrative, classic literature
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates traveling.
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12
Post Office
narrative, classic literature
Henry Chinaski is a hard-drinking, hard-gambling, constantly broke man who takes a job as a substitute mail carrier in Los Angeles.
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