Books like The Office of Historical Corrections
12 books with a reading profile close to The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Also deep and open-ended · narrative, literary
Ishiguro's collection of five linked stories is set around musicians, with nightfall as a recurring backdrop.
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Florida
by Lauren Groff
Also open-ended and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Lauren Groff’s collection focuses on the physical and psychological landscape of the sunshine state, portraying it as a site of predation and decay rather than a vacation destination.
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BRAWLER
by Lauren Groff
Also deep and open-ended · narrative, literary
This short story collection tracks people navigating the friction between their internal desires and the physical environments of modern Florida and historical Europe.
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Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
A Black writer, whose name we never learn, is on a book tour for his novel, and the story follows him as he travels and tries to carry on while his mind seems to drift.
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The Sentence
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Tookie, an Ojibwe woman who survived an unusual incarceration, works at a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis.
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The little disturbances of man
by Grace Paley
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the cramped apartments and bustling streets of mid-century New York City, these short stories focus on the domestic lives of Jewish women navigating family friction and romantic disappointment.
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Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Two brown girls in a London council estate meet at a dance class in the 1980s.
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Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, navigates a single day in London during the massive 2003 protests against the Iraq War.
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Dancing girls and other stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This debut short fiction collection tracks the displacement of Canadian urbanites and expatriates navigating the social shifts of the 1970s.
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Sherman Alexie's linked stories follow Native American characters on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State.
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
These twelve stories, written over eighteen years, are about Latin Americans who find themselves in Europe, mainly in Barcelona, Rome, Geneva and Paris.
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