Books like The Invention of Hugo Cabret
12 books with a reading profile close to The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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Elevation
by Stephen King
narrative, literary
Scott Carey lives in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, and he has a puzzling medical problem: he is steadily losing weight, but he looks the same and weighs the same on the scale whether he is dressed or naked and c…
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West With Giraffes
narrative, literary
In 1938, a hurricane strikes the New York harbor, leaving two young giraffes stranded on the docks.
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The Paris Library
narrative, literary
In 1939 Paris, Odile Souchet secures her dream job at the American Library in Paris, but her life fractures when the Nazis occupy the city.
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Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
narrative, literary
In 1950s London, Margery Benson, a lonely domestic science teacher, abandons her stifling life to find a mythical golden beetle on the island of New Caledonia.
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Wonderstruck
narrative, literary
Ben and Rose live fifty years apart, but their lives intersect through a shared experience of deafness and a search for belonging.
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
narrative, literary
Hendrik Groen is an elderly resident of a nursing home in North Amsterdam who refuses to succumb to the institutional apathy of his environment.
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Modern Lovers
by Emma Straub
narrative, literary
Elizabeth and Andrew, and Zoe and Harry, are two couples who have been friends since their youth in a band, living in Brooklyn.
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City of Girls
narrative, literary
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York City after being expelled from Vassar College.
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Mary Jane
narrative, literary
Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Duer grows up in a strictly conservative, religious household in 1970s Baltimore.
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The Music of Bees
narrative, literary
In the high desert of Hood River, Oregon, forty-four-year-old widow Alice Holtzman fills her solitary life with the meticulous labor of beekeeping.
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
narrative, literary
Nikki, a young British-Punjabi woman, accepts a job teaching creative writing to a group of Sikh widows in Southall, London.
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