Books like The Plot Against America
12 books with a reading profile close to The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Feast of the Goat
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Urania Cabral, now a New York lawyer, comes back to the Dominican Republic after thirty-five years to see her sick father, who once served in Rafael Trujillo's government.
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2
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
history, narrative
Natalie Haynes re-examines the foundations of Western mythology by tracking how female figures were systematically marginalized or vilified through centuries of translation and artistic interpretation.
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3
Matterhorn
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Karl Marlantes’ novel follows Second Lieutenant Mellas and Bravo Company during the Vietnam War in 1969.
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4
The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Julie Otsuka tells the collective history of "picture brides" who traveled from Japan to San Francisco in the early 1900s.
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5
Noticia de un secuestro
history, narrative
Gabriel García Márquez reconstructs the 1990 abductions of ten prominent Colombian citizens by the Extraditables, a group led by Pablo Escobar to pressure the government into banning extradition to the United States.
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6
The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Amitav Ghosh's novel starts with the British conquest of Mandalay in 1885, when the royal family of Burma is exiled to India.
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7
The Book of Negroes
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
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8
The Lacuna
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
The novel follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man navigating the political upheaval of mid-twentieth-century Mexico and the United States.
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9
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in the early 1970s New York rock scene, this oral history follows the rise and fracturing of an unlikely musical duo.
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10
Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Wandering Stars traces a lineage of a Cheyenne family from the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and the forced assimilation at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School to the present day.
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Hiroshima
by John Hersey
history, narrative
John Hersey details the immediate and long-term consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima through the experiences of six survivors: a clerk, two doctors, a tailor’s widow, a German priest, and a Methodist pastor.
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12
The Night Watchman
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at a jewel-bearing plant in rural North Dakota in 1953, and also a Chippewa council member.
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