Books like The Invention of Wings
12 books with a reading profile close to The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
You Think It, I'll Say It
narrative, accessible
Curtis Sittenfeld's collection of ten stories looks at contemporary American relationships with a sharp, witty eye.
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2
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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3
The Jane Austen Book Club
narrative, accessible
Six Californians meet monthly for six months to read and talk about one Austen novel each.
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4
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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All American Boys
narrative, accessible
Rashad Butler, a Black teenager, is brutally beaten by a white police officer who wrongly suspects him of shoplifting and assault at a corner store.
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6
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Ruth Jefferson, a labor and delivery nurse with twenty years of experience, begins her shift at a Connecticut hospital only to be reassigned because a patient’s parents are white supremacists who demand that no African…
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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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The Weird Sisters
narrative, accessible
The three Andreas sisters, daughters of a Shakespeare professor who speaks mostly in quotations, come home to their small Ohio college town because their mother has breast cancer.
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This Tender Land
narrative, accessible
In 1932, orphans Odie and Albert O’Banion flee the Lincoln School in Minnesota, a state-run institution where Native American children face systemic abuse.
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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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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
narrative, accessible
Set on the Korean island of Jeju, this novel follows the lifelong friendship between Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls who join a collective of haenyeo female divers.
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The Hate U Give
narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives a split existence between her impoverished neighborhood, Garden Heights, and her wealthy suburban prep school.
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