Books like Serena
12 books with a reading profile close to Serena by Ron Rash. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
thriller, narrative
In 1859, Patrick Sumner, a disgraced former army surgeon from the Indian Mutiny, signs on as medic aboard the whaling ship Volunteer, bound for the Arctic.
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2
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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3
The Great Divide
history, narrative
The story reconstructs the construction of the Panama Canal through the intersecting lives of marginalized laborers and local residents.
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4
The 19th Wife
history, narrative
This novel weaves together two timelines to examine the history and modern reality of polygamy in the American West.
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5
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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6
The Architect's Apprentice
by Elif Shafak
history, narrative
Jahan arrives in sixteenth-century Constantinople as a boy from India, bringing a white elephant named Chota as a gift for Sultan Suleiman.
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7
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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8
No Country for Old Men
thriller, narrative
Llewellyn Moss, a welder and Vietnam veteran, discovers two million dollars in cash while hunting near the Rio Grande, leftovers from a botched drug deal.
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9
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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10
State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
thriller, narrative
Pharmacology researcher Marina Singh travels from Minnesota to the Amazon basin to investigate the death of a colleague and the status of a long-delayed drug project.
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11
Look Who's Back
by Timur Vermes
history, narrative
In 2011, Adolf Hitler wakes up on a vacant lot in modern Berlin with no memory of the years following 1945.
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12
An Officer and a Spy
history, thriller
Set in late nineteenth-century Paris, this narrative reconstructs the Dreyfus Affair through the perspective of Georges Picquart, an ambitious military intelligence officer.
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