Books like The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
12 books with a reading profile close to The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Transcription
history, narrative
In 1940, Juliet Armstrong, an eighteen-year-old girl, is recruited by MI5 and assigned to transcribe the conversations of Nazi sympathizers who think they are speaking to a fellow supporter, but who are actually being r…
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
history, narrative
John Berendt’s narrative follows his relocation to Savannah, Georgia, where he documents the eccentric subcultures of the city’s high society and underground circles.
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Caleb's Crossing
history, narrative
Set in the 1660s on Martha's Vineyard, then called Great Harbor, the novel follows Bethia Mayfield, a minister’s daughter who forms a secret friendship with Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain.
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Mudbound
history, narrative
In 1946, Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a primitive cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta.
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The Mountains Sing
history, narrative
Hương, a young girl, narrates the Vietnam War through her family's story, as does her grandmother Diệu Lan, who in the 1950s flees land reform in the north with her children.
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Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
history, narrative
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black, known as Wash, is a field hand on a brutal Barbados sugar plantation until he is selected as a laboratory assistant for Christopher Wilde.
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Horse
history, narrative
Geraldine Brooks tracks the history of Lexington, a record-breaking 19th-century Thoroughbred, across three distinct timelines.
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Betty
history, narrative
Set in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains during the mid-twentieth century, the narrative follows Betty Carpenter, one of eight siblings born to a white mother and a Cherokee father.
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The Book of Negroes
history, narrative
Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
history, narrative
Set in the early 1970s New York rock scene, this oral history follows the rise and fracturing of an unlikely musical duo.
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The Lie Tree
narrative, mystery
Faith Sunderly is a fourteen-year-old girl in Victorian England whose family moves to a small island after a scandal involving her father, Reverend Sunderly, a respected naturalist who is suspected of fraud.
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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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