Books like The Mad Women's Ball
12 books with a reading profile close to The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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A Northern Light
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, the story follows Mattie Gokey, a farm girl torn between a university scholarship and her obligations to her widowed father and siblings.
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2
Yellow Wife
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Born into a life of relative privilege on a Virginia plantation, Pheby Delores Brown is promised her freedom at age eighteen.
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3
The German Girl
history, narrative
In 1939 Berlin, twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal and her family board the SS St.
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4
The Mercies
history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
In 1930s British Malaya, Cecily Alcantara works as a low-level clerk while feeling the sting of colonial hierarchy.
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Girl at War
by Sara Nović
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Ten-year-old Ana Jurić lives a carefree life in Zagreb until the Yugoslav Civil War erupts in 1991.
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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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Dominicana
by Angie Cruz
history, narrative
Ana Cancion is fifteen when she marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican Republic in 1965, so that her family can eventually emigrate.
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9
The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Asya Kazancı is a nineteen-year-old Turkish girl in Istanbul, raised in a household of women, with no knowledge of who her father is.
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Cane River
history, narrative
Lalita Tademy traced her own family history to write this novel, which follows four generations of women of colour in Louisiana's Cane River region, from slavery through Reconstruction.
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
history, narrative
In the small town of Mallard, Louisiana, the light-skinned Vignes twins, Desiree and Stella, grow up in a community that prizes fair complexions.
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American Wife
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Alice Blackwell, a quiet, bookish girl from Wisconsin, becomes a librarian and a teacher, and later marries Charlie Blackwell, a wealthy Republican who becomes President of the United States.
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