Books like The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
12 books with a reading profile close to The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Down and Out in Paris and London
history, memoir
George Orwell’s 1933 memoir chronicles his deliberate descent into poverty within two European capitals.
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2
War's Unwomanly Face
history, memoir
Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of Soviet women who served in the Red Army during World War II as snipers, tank drivers, pilots, and field surgeons.
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3
The Book of Negroes
history, narrative
Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
history, narrative
Natalie Haynes re-examines the foundations of Western mythology by tracking how female figures were systematically marginalized or vilified through centuries of translation and artistic interpretation.
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5
Relato de un náufrago
memoir, narrative
Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor on the destroyer Caldas, falls into the Caribbean Sea after heavy cargo breaks loose during a storm.
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6
Island Beneath the Sea
history, narrative
Zarité, a young girl sold into slavery in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue, navigates the brutal sugar plantations owned by Toulouse Valmorain.
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Homage to Catalonia
history, memoir
George Orwell recounts his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War, specifically his time serving within the POUM militia on the Aragon front and in Barcelona.
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8
Marvels
by Kurt Busiek
history, narrative
Phil Sheldon, a news photographer, witnesses the emergence of the superhero era in mid-twentieth-century New York.
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Matterhorn
history, narrative
Karl Marlantes’ novel follows Second Lieutenant Mellas and Bravo Company during the Vietnam War in 1969.
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10
Shrines of Gaiety
history, narrative
Set in 1926 London, the narrative centers on Nellie Coker, a ruthless matriarch who operates a profitable empire of underground nightclubs in Soho.
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Blue Highways
memoir, narrative
After losing his teaching job and his marriage in the same day, William Least Heat-Moon outfitted a Ford Econoline van to navigate the United States exclusively via backroads—the thin blue lines on old Rand McNally maps.
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Caleb's Crossing
history, narrative
Set in the 1660s on Martha's Vineyard, then called Great Harbor, the novel follows Bethia Mayfield, a minister’s daughter who forms a secret friendship with Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain.
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