Books like Telegraph Avenue
12 books with a reading profile close to Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Great Circle
dense, narrative
Marian Graves is a prohibited female aviator who disappears in 1950 while attempting a north-south circumnavigation of the globe.
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The Eighth Life
dense, narrative
Spanning the twentieth century, this family saga begins in Georgia in the early 1900s with a chocolate maker's recipe, a hot drink said to be so delicious it carries a curse, that passes down generations of the Jashi fa…
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3
Middlesex
dense, narrative
Callie Stephanides grows up in mid-century Detroit as a girl, unaware that she carries a rare genetic mutation inherited from her Greek grandparents.
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4
The People in the Trees
dense, narrative
Norton Perina, an ambitious young immunologist, travels to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in 1950 to investigate a lost tribe.
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5
Year of Wonders
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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6
The Pull of the Stars
narrative, literary
The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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7
The Murmur of Bees
narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the narrative follows the Morales family in northern Mexico.
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The Red Garden
narrative, literary
Blackwell, Massachusetts, is a small town in the Berkshires founded in the 1750s by settlers who endure a brutal first winter.
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10
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
dense, narrative
The narrative follows the Barnes family in an Irish town as they face financial ruin following the 2008 economic crash.
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11
Animal Dreams
narrative, literary
Codi Noline returns to her rural Arizona hometown to care for her father, a doctor descending into Alzheimer’s disease.
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12
Honor
narrative, literary
Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.
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