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12 books with a reading profile close to The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Natalie Haynes reimagines the Trojan War through a choral narrative that centers the women, goddesses, and victims usually relegated to the margins of epic poetry.
2

Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
3

Bel-Ami

by Guy de Maupassant

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Georges Duroy arrives in Paris as a penniless veteran with nothing but his appearance and a lack of scruples.
4

Amsterdam

by Ian McEwan

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

After the funeral of Molly Lane, her two former lovers—Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor—forge a mutual euthanasia pact to avoid a similar cognitive decline.
5

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

by Truman Capote

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

The title novella follows an unnamed narrator in wartime New York who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
6

Prodigal Summer

by Barbara Kingsolver

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

In the humid mountains of southern Appalachia, three narrative threads intersect through the lens of evolutionary biology and ecological interdependence.
7

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.
8

Silk and Insight

by Yukio Mishima

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set in 1950s Japan, this novel dramatizes the labor dispute at a major textile factory to examine the reality of industrial paternalism.
9

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

In this adaptation, Benjamin Button is born with the physical appearance and ailments of a seventy-year-old man, forcing his father to navigate social embarrassment in nineteenth-century Baltimore.
10

Home Fire

by Kamila Shamsie

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Isma Pasha raises her younger twin siblings, Aneeka and Parvaiz, in London after their jihadist father dies in transit to Guantanamo Bay.
11

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
12

Hag-Seed

by Margaret Atwood

narrative, classic literature

Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.

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