Books like The Mistress of Spices
12 books with a reading profile close to The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Cold Mountain
romance, narrative
In the final stages of the American Civil War, a Confederate soldier named Inman deserts his hospital ward to walk hundreds of miles back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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2
Travesuras de la niña mala
romance, narrative
Ricardo, a Peruvian translator who lives in Paris, first falls for Lily, a Chilean girl in Lima in the 1950s.
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3
Evenings and Weekends
romance, narrative
Set during a sweltering weekend in London, the narrative follows a group of interconnected friends navigating the precariousness of the modern city.
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4
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
romance, narrative
Sonia and Sunny are two individuals navigating the isolation of contemporary urban life while attempting to maintain a long-distance connection.
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5
Eva Luna
romance, narrative
Eva Luna is born to a servant mother and a gardener father in an unnamed South American country, and her mother tells her stories to survive.
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6
In Memoriam
by Alice Winn
romance, narrative
In 1914, Gaunt and Ellwood are students at Preshute College, an elite English boarding school where they hide their romantic feelings for one another behind a shared obsession with epic poetry.
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7
Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin
romance, narrative
Greta lives in a drafty, unheated farmhouse in Hudson, New York, where she works as a transcriptionist for a sex therapist.
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8
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
romance, narrative
Wavy Quinn is the daughter of a meth dealer growing up in a chaotic, neglectful household in rural Kansas.
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9
Sunburn
romance, narrative
Set in the early 1990s in the rural Irish village of Crosshaven, this novel follows Lucy, a teenager navigating the oppressive social expectations of a small Catholic community.
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10
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
romance, narrative
Set in early twentieth-century New York, this novel follows Coralie Sardie, the daughter of a sinister museum proprietor who exhibits biological anomalies on Coney Island.
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11
Exciting Times
by Naoise Dolan
romance, narrative
Ava is a twenty-two-year-old Irish expatriate teaching English to wealthy children in Hong Kong.
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12
The Paying Guests
by Sarah Waters
romance, narrative
Set in 1922 South London, the narrative centers on Frances Wray and her widowed mother, who are forced by financial ruin following the Great War to take in lodgers.
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