Books like

Books like Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories

12 books with a reading profile close to Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories by Gabriel García Márquez. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Saturday

by Ian McEwan

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, navigates a single day in London during the massive 2003 protests against the Iraq War.
2

The Hotel New Hampshire

by John Irving

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

John Berry grows up in a family led by his father Win, an eccentric dreamer who buys a failing New Hampshire hotel and wants to turn it into a family business.
3

Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless farm wife in rural Tennessee, discovers a valley filled with millions of monarch butterflies that have deviated from their typical migration path to Mexico.
4

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

by Margaret Atwood

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
5

Arcadia

by Lauren Groff

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Bit Arcadia is born in a commune in upstate New York in the 1970s, the first child born there.
6

Colored Television

by Danzy Senna

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Jane, a biracial novelist living in Los Angeles, struggles to finish her second book after a decade of labor.
7

The little disturbances of man

by Grace Paley

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Set in the cramped apartments and bustling streets of mid-century New York City, these short stories focus on the domestic lives of Jewish women navigating family friction and romantic disappointment.
8

Clear

by Carys Davies

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Set in 1843 during the final stages of the Highland Clearances, the story follows John Ferguson, an impoverished minister sent to a remote Shetland island to evict its last remaining inhabitant.
9

The Family Fang

by Kevin Wilson

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Caleb and Camille Fang are performance artists who use their children, Annie and Buster, in public acts of disruption that they call art, creating scenes of chaos in malls and restaurants.
10

Dancing girls and other stories

by Margaret Atwood

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

This debut short fiction collection tracks the displacement of Canadian urbanites and expatriates navigating the social shifts of the 1970s.
11

Torto Arado

by Itamar Vieira Junior

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Two sisters, Bibiana and Belonísia, grow up in a farming community of descendants of enslaved people in the backlands of Bahia, Brazil.
12

March

by Geraldine Brooks

Also thought-provoking · 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.

Get picks matched to your own reading on papr.

Get papr

Your library, beautifully understood.