Books like The Only Woman in the Room
12 books with a reading profile close to The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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Sold on a Monday
narrative, literary
Set in Depression-era America, the narrative begins when Ellis Reed, a struggling newspaper reporter, photographs two young children standing next to a sign offering them for sale.
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Cold Sassy Tree
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
Fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy lives in Cold Sassy, Georgia, in 1906, when his grandfather Rucker Blakeslee, a store owner, scandalizes the town.
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3
A Long Petal of the Sea
narrative, literary
In the late 1930s, during the final days of the Spanish Civil War, Victor Dalmau, a young army doctor, and Roser Bruguera, a pregnant pianist, flee the advancing fascist forces.
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Violeta
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
Violeta del Valle begins her life during the 1920 influenza pandemic and concludes it amidst the global outbreak of 2020.
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5
Delta of Venus
by Anaïs Nin
narrative, literary
Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking collection of erotic short stories, commissioned in the 1940s by a private collector.
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6
Go as a River
by Shelley Read
narrative, literary
Victoria Nash is a seventeen-year-old girl managing her family’s peach orchard in Iola, Colorado, during the 1940s.
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7
Take My Hand
narrative, literary
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights era nurse Civil Townsend begins working at a federally funded family planning clinic.
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8
Run
by Ann Patchett
narrative, literary
Bernard Doyle, a former Boston mayor, has raised his sons Tip and Teddy, who are Black and were adopted, along with his biological son Doyle.
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9
News of the World
narrative, literary
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels across North Texas, reading international newspapers to paying audiences in small towns.
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10
People of the Book
narrative, literary
Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book conservator, travels to Sarajevo in 1996 to restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, a fourteenth-century Hebrew manuscript.
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11
The Signature of All Things
narrative, literary
Alma Whittaker, the daughter of a wealthy botanical importer, spends the nineteenth century studying the intricate world of mosses on her family’s Philadelphia estate.
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12
Free Food for Millionaires
by Min Jin Lee
narrative, literary
Casey Han, a Korean-American woman from Queens, graduates from Princeton in 1990 and tries to establish herself in New York.
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