Books like The Leavers
12 books with a reading profile close to The Leavers by Lisa Ko. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
The Space Between Us
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Sera Dubash is a Parsi woman in Mumbai who has employed Bhima as a maid for over twenty years.
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2
Honor
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.
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3
The Unseen World
by Liz Moore
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.
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4
The Female Persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
narrative, literary
The narrative tracks Greer Kadetsky, a college student whose life shifts after she meets Faith Frank, a central figure in the second-wave feminist movement.
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5
Run
by Ann Patchett
narrative, literary
Bernard Doyle, a former Boston mayor, has raised his sons Tip and Teddy, who are Black and were adopted, along with his biological son Doyle.
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6
The Murmur of Bees
narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the narrative follows the Morales family in northern Mexico.
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7
The Pull of the Stars
narrative, literary
The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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8
Deep Cuts
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Deep Cuts investigates the evolution of independent music scenes and the technical shifts in how listeners discover underground artists.
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9
Same As It Ever Was
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Julia Ames is fifty-seven when her life begins to unravel through a series of unexpected encounters in a grocery store and the complicated return of her adult son.
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10
If I Had Your Face
by Frances Cha
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in contemporary Seoul, the novel follows four women as they navigate a rigid social hierarchy dictated by plastic surgery, debt, and the commercial sex industry.
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11
Take My Hand
narrative, literary
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights era nurse Civil Townsend begins working at a federally funded family planning clinic.
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12
News of the World
narrative, literary
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels across North Texas, reading international newspapers to paying audiences in small towns.
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