Books like Soccer in Sun and Shadow
12 books with a reading profile close to Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
history, literary
Natalie Haynes re-examines the foundations of Western mythology by tracking how female figures were systematically marginalized or vilified through centuries of translation and artistic interpretation.
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Stone Blind
history, literary
Natalie Haynes reconstructs the myth of Medusa, shifting the perspective from the hero Perseus to the mortal Gorgon herself.
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Shrines of Gaiety
history, literary
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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Marvels
by Kurt Busiek
history, literary
Phil Sheldon, a news photographer, witnesses the emergence of the superhero era in mid-twentieth-century New York.
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Look Who's Back
by Timur Vermes
history, literary
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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Caleb's Crossing
history, literary
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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Horse
history, literary
Geraldine Brooks tracks the history of Lexington, a record-breaking 19th-century Thoroughbred, across three distinct timelines.
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Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
history, literary
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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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
history, literary
In this work of historical fiction, Philip Roth reimagines the 1940 United States presidential election.
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The Mountains Sing
history, literary
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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The Book of Negroes
history, literary
Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
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