Books like The Museum of Extraordinary Things
12 books with a reading profile close to The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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The Gargoyle
romance, narrative
A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.
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2
Here on Earth
romance, narrative
March Murray returns with her teenage daughter Gwen to her childhood home in a coastal Massachusetts town after a death in the family.
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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
romance, narrative
In 1890s Whitstable, Nancy Astley lives a quiet life shucking oysters until she becomes obsessed with Kitty Butler, a male impersonator performing at a local music hall.
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4
The Other Bennet Sister
romance, narrative
Mary Bennet occupies the margins of the Longbourn household, dismissed by her mother for her plainness and overlooked by her sisters.
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5
The Magic Fish
romance, narrative
Tiên is a Vietnamese-American teenager who shares a love for fairy tales with his mother, Hiền.
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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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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
The Story of Beautiful Girl
by Rachel Simon
romance, narrative
In 1968, Lynnie, a young woman with a developmental disability, lives in a Pennsylvania institution called the School.
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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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11
The Shell Seekers
romance, narrative
Penelope Keeling is in her sixties and living in a Cornish house, the daughter of a painter, Lawrence Stern, whose work has fallen out of fashion.
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12
My Policeman
romance, narrative
Brighton in the 1950s: Tom, a young policeman, courts and marries Marion, a schoolteacher, while also carrying on a secret relationship with Patrick, a museum curator, at a time when homosexuality is a crime.
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