Books like The Buddha in the Attic
12 books with a reading profile close to The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Americanah
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Ifemelu and Obinze are young lovers in military-ruled Nigeria who depart the country for different hemispheres.
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The Nickel Boys
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in Jim Crow Florida, the story follows Elwood Curtis, a studious teenager who adheres to Dr.
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Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Wandering Stars traces a lineage of a Cheyenne family from the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and the forced assimilation at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School to the present day.
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The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Asya Kazancı is a nineteen-year-old Turkish girl in Istanbul, raised in a household of women, with no knowledge of who her father is.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
In 1960, three of the four Mirabal sisters were beaten to death on a road in the Dominican Republic because they had opposed the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
In 1930s British Malaya, Cecily Alcantara works as a low-level clerk while feeling the sting of colonial hierarchy.
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7
Noticia de un secuestro
history, narrative
Gabriel García Márquez reconstructs the 1990 abductions of ten prominent Colombian citizens by the Extraditables, a group led by Pablo Escobar to pressure the government into banning extradition to the United States.
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
In a rural village in war-torn Chechnya, Akhmed rescues an eight-year-old girl named Havaa after her father is abducted by Russian soldiers.
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The Mad Women's Ball
by Victoria Mas
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in 1885 at the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris, the narrative follows Eugénie Cléry, a young woman committed to the institution by her father after she reveals her ability to speak with spirits.
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A Northern Light
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, the story follows Mattie Gokey, a farm girl torn between a university scholarship and her obligations to her widowed father and siblings.
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When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
The narrative follows an unnamed Japanese American family—a mother, daughter, and son—living in Berkeley, California, in 1942.
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in the early 1970s New York rock scene, this oral history follows the rise and fracturing of an unlikely musical duo.
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