Books like The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
12 books with a reading profile close to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
narrative, accessible
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, secures a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, an executive at Lehman Brothers.
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2
Infinite Country
narrative, accessible
The narrative follows Elena and Mauro, a Colombian couple who overstay their visas in the United States, and the three children they raise across two nations.
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3
Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
narrative, accessible
The story follows two women whose lives intersect on a Nigerian beach during a violent encounter involving an oil company’s mercenaries.
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4
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King
narrative, accessible
Andy Dufresne, a banker convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, arrives at Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine.
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5
Wonder Boys
narrative, accessible
Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
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6
Black Cake
narrative, accessible
After the death of Eleanor Bennett, her estranged children, Byron and Benny, reunite in California to hear her final recorded message.
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7
The Book of Unknown Americans
narrative, accessible
Two families move into the same apartment building in Delaware: the Riveras, who came from Mexico, and the Toros from Panama.
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8
The Casual Vacancy
by J.K. Rowling
narrative, accessible
Set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the story begins with the sudden death of parish councillor Barry Fairbrother.
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9
Fourteen Days
by Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston
narrative, accessible
Set in a Lower East Side tenement during the early lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, this collaborative novel follows a group of neighbors who gather on their rooftop to exchange stories.
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10
Was man von hier aus sehen kann
by Mariana Leky
narrative, accessible
Luise, a ten-year-old girl in a small village in the German Westerwald, learns that whenever her grandmother Selma dreams of an okapi, someone in the village will die within twenty-four hours.
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11
The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
narrative, accessible
Set in the late nineteenth century during the compilation of the first Oxford English Dictionary, Esme Nicoll grows up beneath the sorting table where her father and other lexicographers classify words.
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12
Fleishman Is in Trouble
narrative, accessible
Toby Fleishman is a forty-one-year-old hepatologist navigating the immediate aftermath of a bitter divorce in Manhattan.
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