Books like The Cider House Rules
12 books with a reading profile close to The Cider House Rules by John Irving. Contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
In post-war North London, two former soldiers, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, navigate a cityscape shaped by the aftermath of the British Empire.
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Still Life
by Sarah Winman
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
In 1944, British soldier Ulysses Temper meets art historian Evelyn Skinner in a ruined Tuscan cellar.
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Hag-Seed
narrative, classic literature
Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.
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Sister Carrie
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
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A Thousand Ships
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.
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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.
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The House of the Spirits
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
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The Sweetness of Water
Also contemplative · narrative, classic literature
Set in late-Reconstruction Georgia, the narrative follows Prentiss and Landry, two brothers recently freed from slavery who seek employment on George Walker’s farm.
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Shirley
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
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Prodigal Summer
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.
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