Books like Ten Little Indians
12 books with a reading profile close to Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Beautyland
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Adina Gady grew up in Philadelphia believing she was a human girl, but she is actually an extraterrestrial sent to observe the inhabitants of Earth.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ruby Lennox begins her story at the moment of her conception in 1951 in York, and narrates her family's history through her own eyes.
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Dancing girls and other stories
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This debut short fiction collection tracks the displacement of Canadian urbanites and expatriates navigating the social shifts of the 1970s.
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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The Wife
by Meg Wolitzer
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Joan Castleman has stood beside her husband Joe, a celebrated novelist, for decades.
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Inseparable
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This autobiographical novel tracks the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, fictionalized versions of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin.
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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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A Spool of Blue Thread
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Redniss Street in Baltimore is where the Whitshank family history anchors itself, centered on a wooden house built by their patriarch.
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En agosto nos vemos
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ana Magdalena Bach, a married woman in her forties, travels to an island each August 16 to place flowers on her mother's grave.
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Dream Count
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The novel centers on Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer living in America during the pandemic, as she examines the intersections of her past romances and her current desires.
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Pearl Tull is abandoned by her husband Beck and raises three children, Cody, Ezra and Jenny, in Baltimore on her own, with a mix of strictness and bitterness.
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The little disturbances of man
by Grace Paley
Also inward-looking and 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.
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