Books like The Jane Austen Book Club
12 books with a reading profile close to The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; 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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The Invention of Wings
narrative, accessible
The story follows Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy Charleston judge, and Hetty "Handful," the enslaved girl gifted to Sarah on her eleventh birthday.
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The Book of Unknown Americans
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · 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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Monster
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon sits in a courtroom facing charges of felony murder for his alleged role as a lookout in a drugstore robbery.
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Maine
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Three generations of the Kelleher family, an Irish American clan from Boston, gather at the family's house in Maine for a summer.
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Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
Also thought-provoking · 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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Ghost Boys
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Jerome is a twelve-year-old boy killed by a police officer who thinks his toy gun is real.
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8
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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Jacob Have I Loved
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Set on the isolated island of Rass in the Chesapeake Bay during the 1940s, the story follows Louise Bradshaw’s struggle to find an identity separate from her twin sister, Caroline.
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The Weird Sisters
Also inward-looking · 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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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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Pizza Girl
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Eighteen-year-old Jane is pregnant, grieving her alcoholic father’s recent death, and working as a pizza delivery driver in suburban Los Angeles.
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