Books like Snow Falling on Cedars
12 books with a reading profile close to Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. Contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Deacon King Kong
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969, the story begins when Sportcoat, an aging, hard-drinking church deacon, shoots a young drug dealer named Deems Clemens in broad daylight.
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2
The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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3
The Round House
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
In 1988 on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts seeks justice after a violent physical and sexual assault leaves his mother, Geraldine, traumatized and silent.
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4
Disappearing Earth
narrative, mystery
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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5
Elena Knows
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Elena, an aging woman in Argentina, navigates the physical rigidity caused by advanced Parkinson's disease to investigate her daughter Rita’s death.
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6
The Wonder
narrative, mystery
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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7
De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Maali Almeida, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man, wakes up dead in a visa office in the afterlife with no idea how he died.
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9
Greenwood
narrative, mystery
The novel follows the Greenwood family across four generations, structured like the rings of a tree from 2038 back to 1908.
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10
Ordinary Grace
narrative, mystery
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.
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11
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Also contemplative · narrative, mystery
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey, in a suburban Pennsylvania cornfield in 1973.
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12
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Margot Lee, a young Korean American woman in Los Angeles, comes home to find her mother, Mina, dead in her small apartment.
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