Books like The Enchanted April
12 books with a reading profile close to The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. Contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Francie Nolan grows up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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2
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, literary
Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, inherits her father’s struggling farm amid a harsh prairie landscape.
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3
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jim Burden moves to the Nebraska frontier to live with his grandparents, where he befriends Ántonia Shimerda, the eldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants.
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4
The Red Pony
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jody Tiflin is a young boy growing up on his father’s California ranch, where he learns the rigid realities of life and death through his relationship with a red pony named Gabilan.
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5
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This collection centers on Ebenezer Scrooge, a parsimonious financier in Victorian London who views charity as a waste of resources.
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6
Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Dana Yarboro knows her father, James Witherspoon, has another family.
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7
Empire Falls
narrative, literary
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill, a greasy spoon in a decaying Maine logging town owned by the wealthy Whiting family.
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8
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in 1962 Minnesota, the story follows eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who believes his father, Jeremiah, performs literal miracles.
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9
Ham on Rye
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Chinaski grows up in Los Angeles in the 1930s with a father who beats him and a mother who looks away.
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10
Adam Bede
by George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the rural community of Hayslope at the end of the eighteenth century, the narrative follows the upright carpenter Adam Bede and his unrequited love for the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorrel.
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11
The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates traveling.
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12
Rubyfruit Jungle
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Molly Bolt grows up in impoverished rural Florida and York, Pennsylvania, refusing to conform to the expectations of her adoptive mother or the social dictates of the mid-twentieth century.
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