Books like The Piano Tuner
12 books with a reading profile close to The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Flight Behavior
narrative, literary
Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless farm wife in rural Tennessee, discovers a valley filled with millions of monarch butterflies that have deviated from their typical migration path to Mexico.
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2
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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3
The Safekeep
narrative, literary
In 1961 Overijssel, Isabel lives a life defined by rigid routine and the preservation of her late mother’s isolated country estate.
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4
March
narrative, literary
This novel reimagines the American Civil War from the perspective of John March, the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
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5
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
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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6
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
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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7
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
by Renée Nault
narrative, literary
In this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s narrative, Offred navigates the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, a regime that has replaced the United States government with a strict religious hierarchy.
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8
The Sentence
narrative, literary
Tookie, an Ojibwe woman who survived an unusual incarceration, works at a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis.
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9
The Family Fang
by Kevin Wilson
narrative, literary
Caleb and Camille Fang are performance artists who use their children, Annie and Buster, in public acts of disruption that they call art, creating scenes of chaos in malls and restaurants.
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10
Table for Two
by Amor Towles
narrative, literary
In "Table for Two," Amor Towles weaves together interconnected stories set in post-war New York and California.
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11
Colored Television
by Danzy Senna
narrative, literary
Jane, a biracial novelist living in Los Angeles, struggles to finish her second book after a decade of labor.
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12
Arcadia
by Lauren Groff
narrative, literary
Bit Arcadia is born in a commune in upstate New York in the 1970s, the first child born there.
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