Books like The Help
12 books with a reading profile close to The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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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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Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas is seized from her Lithuanian home by the Soviet secret police.
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8
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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9
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
As World War II begins, William Beech is evacuated from a London slum to the English countryside.
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10
The Downstairs Girl
by Stacey Lee
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1890s Atlanta, Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid by day and lives in a hidden basement beneath a newspaper office by night.
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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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12
Okay for Now
history, narrative
In 1968, Doug Swieteck, a fourteen-year-old boy, moves with his family to Marysville, a small town in upstate New York.
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