Books like The Magician's Elephant
12 books with a reading profile close to The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo. Contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
When Women Were Dragons
narrative, literary
During the 1955 Mass Dragoning, hundreds of thousands of American women spontaneously transformed into dragons and took to the skies, leaving behind families and lives of forced domesticity.
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2
Death: The High Cost of Living
by Neil Gaiman
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Once every century, Death takes on human form for a single day to understand the lives of those she takes.
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3
The Teller of Small Fortunes
by Julie Leong
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
Tao is a young woman who works as a fortune-teller, reading small fortunes at markets, and who has left her past behind.
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4
The Change
narrative, literary
Set in the wealthy enclave of Mattauk, New York, this novel follows three women whose bodies begin to manifest supernatural abilities as they enter menopause.
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5
Once Upon a River
narrative, literary
On a winter night at the Swan Inn along the Thames, a wounded stranger staggers through the door carrying the lifeless body of a small girl.
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6
The Tombs of Atuan
narrative, literary
Tenar is chosen as a young girl to be the new high priestess of the Nameless Ones, a set of ancient powers worshipped in the desert of Atuan.
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7
The Deep
narrative, literary
Inspired by a song by the group clipping., this novella follows the wajinru, water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard during the Atlantic slave trade.
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8
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
In 1920s Alaska, homesteaders Jack and Mabel struggle with the isolation of the frontier and the grief of their childless marriage.
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9
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
After his family is murdered by a man named Jack, a toddler wanders into a nearby cemetery where the resident spirits adopt him.
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10
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
narrative, literary
Orquídea Divina is the matriarch of a family in Florida with a home full of magic, who invites her descendants to her funeral and promises each an inheritance.
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11
Gods of Jade and Shadow
narrative, literary
Set in 1920s Mexico, the story follows Casiopea Tun, a young woman living a life of servitude in her grandfather’s house.
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12
Juniper & Thorn
by Ava Reid
narrative, literary
Set in a fictionalized nineteenth-century Odessa, this gothic fairy tale follows Marlinchen, the youngest of three sisters who live under the suffocating control of their father, a wizard named Zmey.
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