Books like The Invisible Bridge
12 books with a reading profile close to The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Memoirs of a Geisha
history, romance
Sold by her father in the 1930s, nine-year-old Chiyo enters an okiya in Kyoto’s Gion district to work as a servant.
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2
Of Love and Shadows
history, romance
Irene Beltrán is a journalist from a wealthy family in a Latin American country ruled by a military dictatorship.
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3
Homeseeking
by Karissa Chen
history, romance
The story follows Mei-hua and her family as they navigate the shifting borders and political upheavals of twentieth-century East Asia.
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4
Only the Beautiful
history, romance
This novel follows two women connected by blood and tragedy during the mid-twentieth century.
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5
The Architect's Apprentice
by Elif Shafak
history, narrative
Jahan arrives in sixteenth-century Constantinople as a boy from India, bringing a white elephant named Chota as a gift for Sultan Suleiman.
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6
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
history, romance
Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during World War II, the narrative follows Pelagia, a strong-willed village woman, and her father, the local physician Dr.
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7
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
romance, narrative
Set in early twentieth-century New York, this novel follows Coralie Sardie, the daughter of a sinister museum proprietor who exhibits biological anomalies on Coney Island.
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8
The Great Divide
history, narrative
The story reconstructs the construction of the Panama Canal through the intersecting lives of marginalized laborers and local residents.
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9
Skeletons at the Feast
history, narrative
In January 1945, as the Red Army advances toward East Prussia, the Emmerich family, who run an estate, decide to flee west.
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10
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
history, narrative
Margaret George captures the life of England’s most notorious monarch through a fictionalized memoir discovered centuries after his death.
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11
The 19th Wife
history, narrative
This novel weaves together two timelines to examine the history and modern reality of polygamy in the American West.
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Echo
history, narrative
The narrative begins with a fairy tale prologue centered on an enchanted harmonica and a prophecy to save three lost souls.
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