Books like The Eighth Life
12 books with a reading profile close to The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Also thought-provoking · history, dense
Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up navigating the expectations of her middle-class Black family while spending summers in a small Georgia town.
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2
The Covenant of Water
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Spanning seven decades in Kerala, South India, the narrative follows three generations of a family afflicted by a peculiar medical condition known as the Condition.
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3
All the Light We Cannot See
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind girl living in Paris, flees to Saint-Malo with her father to escape the Nazi occupation, carrying a precious and potentially cursed diamond from the Museum of Natural History.
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4
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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5
Great Circle
dense, narrative
Marian Graves is a prohibited female aviator who disappears in 1950 while attempting a north-south circumnavigation of the globe.
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6
The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Amitav Ghosh's novel starts with the British conquest of Mandalay in 1885, when the royal family of Burma is exiled to India.
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Manhattan Beach
history, narrative
Set in New York City during the Great Depression and World War II, the narrative follows Anna Kerrigan as she maneuvers through the male-dominated Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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8
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 Lacuna
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
The novel follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man navigating the political upheaval of mid-twentieth-century Mexico and the United States.
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10
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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11
The Weight of Ink
history, narrative
In 2000s London, historian Helen Watt, who is ill and near retirement, is called to an old house where workers have found a hidden cache of seventeenth-century Jewish papers.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
history, narrative
In 1799, Jacob de Zoet, a young Dutch clerk, arrives at Dejima, the artificial island in Nagasaki harbor that is Japan's only trading link with the West.
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