Books like The Little Friend
12 books with a reading profile close to The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Blind Assassin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Iris Chase Griffen narrates a multi-layered history centered on the 1945 death of her sister, Laura, and the decline of their family’s industrial wealth in Port Ticonderoga.
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The Round House
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
In 1988 on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts seeks justice after a violent physical and sexual assault leaves his mother, Geraldine, traumatized and silent.
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3
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Also deep · narrative, mystery
In this alternate history set in the Alaskan panhandle, the Sitka District serves as a temporary federal preserve for Jewish refugees after the collapse of Israel in 1948.
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4
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Maali Almeida, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man, wakes up dead in a visa office in the afterlife with no idea how he died.
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5
The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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6
Great Circle
Also deep · dense, narrative
Marian Graves is a prohibited female aviator who disappears in 1950 while attempting a north-south circumnavigation of the globe.
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7
The People in the Trees
Also deep and thought-provoking · dense, narrative
Norton Perina, an ambitious young immunologist, travels to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in 1950 to investigate a lost tribe.
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8
De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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9
Elena Knows
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Elena, an aging woman in Argentina, navigates the physical rigidity caused by advanced Parkinson's disease to investigate her daughter Rita’s death.
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10
Middlesex
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
Callie Stephanides grows up in mid-century Detroit as a girl, unaware that she carries a rare genetic mutation inherited from her Greek grandparents.
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up navigating the expectations of her middle-class Black family while spending summers in a small Georgia town.
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12
Snow Falling on Cedars
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Set in 1954 on the fictional San Piedro Island, the narrative centers on the murder trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American fisherman accused of killing Carl Heine.
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