Books like Small Wonder
12 books with a reading profile close to Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Also contemplative · personal growth, narrative
Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, bridges the divide between objective biological study and Indigenous ecological knowledge.
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2
The Poet X
personal growth, narrative
Xiomara Batista is a teenager in Harlem who navigates the strict religious dictates of her Mami and the physical unwanted attention her body attracts.
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3
Mayflies
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
The story begins in 1986, following teenager James Noble and his charismatic friend Tully Dawson in a small Scottish town.
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4
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Fidelis Waldvogel returns to Germany from the First World War with a sniper's skill and a plan to become a butcher like his father.
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5
Inseparable
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
This autobiographical novel tracks the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, fictionalized versions of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin.
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6
Year of Wonders
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
In 1665, a tailor in the isolated English village of Eyam receives a parcel of cloth from London infested with plague-carrying fleas.
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7
March
narrative, literary
This novel reimagines the American Civil War from the perspective of John March, the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
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8
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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9
The Samurai's Garden
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Stephen, a young Chinese man who has been ill, goes in 1937 to his family's summer house in Tarumi, a Japanese seaside village, to recover.
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10
The Sentence
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Tookie, an Ojibwe woman who survived an unusual incarceration, works at a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis.
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11
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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12
How the García girls lost their accents
narrative, literary
The narrative follows the four García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—as they flee the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic to settle in New York City.
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