Books like The Downstairs Girl
12 books with a reading profile close to The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Light in Hidden Places
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In occupied Poland during 1943, sixteen-year-old Stefania Podgórska works in a grocery store while caring for her six-year-old sister, Helena.
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Settled in an English village during 1940, the story begins when the local vicar cancels the church choir because all the men have departed for the front.
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The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
history, narrative
Sage Singer is a baker living in New Hampshire who struggles with isolation and the physical scars of a past car accident.
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The Great Alone
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1974, Ernt Allbright, a former POW struggling with untreated trauma, moves his wife Cora and thirteen-year-old daughter Leni to the remote Alaskan wilderness.
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The Kitchen House
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan, arrives at a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1791 as an indentured servant.
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The Help
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, university graduate Skeeter Phelan returns home and finds herself at odds with the rigid social hierarchy of her white peers.
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The Nightingale
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in German-occupied France during World War II, the narrative follows two sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, as they navigate divergent paths of survival and defiance.
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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
by Lisa See
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In fifteenth-century China, Tan Yunxian is raised by her physician grandparents to practice medicine, a rare privilege for a woman of the Ming Dynasty.
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Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In early 1945, the Soviet army advances through East Prussia, forcing thousands of refugees toward the Baltic coast.
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The Kitchen Front
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in wartime Britain, the narrative follows four women competing for a spot as the first female co-host of a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front.
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The Lion Women of Tehran
history, narrative
Set in mid-twentieth-century Iran, the narrative follows Homa and Ellie, two girls from disparate socioeconomic backgrounds whose lives intersect in a Tehran classroom.
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Rodham
history, narrative
This novel presents a counterfactual history starting in 1971, when Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton meet at Yale Law School.
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