Books like The Line of Beauty
12 books with a reading profile close to The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Arcadia
by Lauren Groff
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Bit Arcadia is born in a commune in upstate New York in the 1970s, the first child born there.
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2
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
John Berry grows up in a family led by his father Win, an eccentric dreamer who buys a failing New Hampshire hotel and wants to turn it into a family business.
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3
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, navigates a single day in London during the massive 2003 protests against the Iraq War.
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4
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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6
Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
A Black writer, whose name we never learn, is on a book tour for his novel, and the story follows him as he travels and tries to carry on while his mind seems to drift.
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March
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This novel reimagines the American Civil War from the perspective of John March, the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
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8
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Sherman Alexie's linked stories follow Native American characters on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State.
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9
The Office of Historical Corrections
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Danielle Evans’ collection centers on Black women navigating public and private crises in modern America.
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
These twelve stories, written over eighteen years, are about Latin Americans who find themselves in Europe, mainly in Barcelona, Rome, Geneva and Paris.
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11
The Sentence
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Tookie, an Ojibwe woman who survived an unusual incarceration, works at a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis.
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12
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the humid landscape of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, the narrative follows fifteen-year-old Esch and her three brothers during the twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.
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