Books like The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
12 books with a reading profile close to The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein. Contemplative; an easy read.
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
narrative, literary
Hendrik Groen is an elderly resident of a nursing home in North Amsterdam who refuses to succumb to the institutional apathy of his environment.
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Elevation
by Stephen King
narrative, literary
Scott Carey lives in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, and he has a puzzling medical problem: he is steadily losing weight, but he looks the same and weighs the same on the scale whether he is dressed or naked and c…
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
narrative, literary
In 1930s Paris, a young orphan named Hugo Cabret lives in the hidden maintenance tunnels of a busy train station.
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Wonderstruck
narrative, literary
Ben and Rose live fifty years apart, but their lives intersect through a shared experience of deafness and a search for belonging.
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The Paris Library
narrative, literary
In 1939 Paris, Odile Souchet secures her dream job at the American Library in Paris, but her life fractures when the Nazis occupy the city.
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The Music of Bees
narrative, literary
In the high desert of Hood River, Oregon, forty-four-year-old widow Alice Holtzman fills her solitary life with the meticulous labor of beekeeping.
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
narrative, literary
Set on the Korean island of Jeju, this novel follows the lifelong friendship between Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls who join a collective of haenyeo female divers.
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Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
narrative, literary
In 1950s London, Margery Benson, a lonely domestic science teacher, abandons her stifling life to find a mythical golden beetle on the island of New Caledonia.
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This Time Tomorrow
by Emma Straub
narrative, literary
Alice Stern is approaching her fortieth birthday in New York City, feeling stagnant in her career and romantic life while her father, Leonard, lies dying in a hospital bed.
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Mary Jane
narrative, literary
Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Duer grows up in a strictly conservative, religious household in 1970s Baltimore.
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Modern Lovers
by Emma Straub
narrative, literary
Elizabeth and Andrew, and Zoe and Harry, are two couples who have been friends since their youth in a band, living in Brooklyn.
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