Books like St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
12 books with a reading profile close to St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in a nameless Balkan country recovering from war, the narrative follows Natalia, a young doctor on a mission to deliver medicine to an orphanage.
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2
Tales from Earthsea
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This collection consists of five stories and a factual appendix documenting the history and mechanics of the archipelago.
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3
Swamplandia!
narrative, literary
Set in the sinking geography of the Florida Everglades, this novel follows the Bigtree family, a clan of alligator wrestlers struggling to maintain their failing theme park.
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4
Who Fears Death
narrative, literary
In a post-apocalyptic Sudan, the light-skinned Nuru people systematically oppress the dark-skinned Okeke.
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5
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Also deep · narrative, literary
Set in a reimagined medieval Spain, the story traces the collision of three rival cultures: the Asharites, the Jaddites, and the Kindath.
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6
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
by Neil Gaiman
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In this collection, Neil Gaiman assembles dozens of stories and poems that distort familiar reality.
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7
The Spear Cuts Through Water
narrative, literary
In the Strangled Empire, three oppressive princes rule through terror and magical birthrights under their father, the Old Emperor.
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8
The Water Dancer
narrative, literary
Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, the son of an enslaved woman and the white man who owns them both.
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9
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
narrative, literary
In 1920s Alaska, homesteaders Jack and Mabel struggle with the isolation of the frontier and the grief of their childless marriage.
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10
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
When a middle-aged man returns to his childhood home for a funeral, he wanders to the neighboring farmhouse where he met Lettie Hempstock decades earlier.
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11
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
A lonely cartographer finds himself drawn to a mysterious walled city, a place that seems to exist in a liminal space between reality and dream.
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Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4)
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tenar, once a high priestess and now a widow, lives a quiet life farming on the island of Gont until she adopts Therru, a girl severely burned and scarred by her own family.
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