Books like The Red Garden
12 books with a reading profile close to The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Murmur of Bees
narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the narrative follows the Morales family in northern Mexico.
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2
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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3
The Pull of the Stars
narrative, literary
The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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4
Year of Wonders
narrative, literary
In 1665, a tailor in the isolated English village of Eyam receives a parcel of cloth from London infested with plague-carrying fleas.
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5
The Unseen World
by Liz Moore
narrative, literary
Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.
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6
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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7
The Female Persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
narrative, literary
The narrative tracks Greer Kadetsky, a college student whose life shifts after she meets Faith Frank, a central figure in the second-wave feminist movement.
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8
The Seed Keeper
by Diane Wilson
narrative, literary
Rosalie Iron Wing grows up learning the traditional Dakhóta methods of gathering and preserving seeds from her father in the woods of Minnesota.
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9
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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10
Clear
by Carys Davies
narrative, literary
Set in 1843 during the final stages of the Highland Clearances, the story follows John Ferguson, an impoverished minister sent to a remote Shetland island to evict its last remaining inhabitant.
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11
The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
narrative, literary
One morning in the Bronx, eleven-year-old Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Fuzhounese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never returns home.
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12
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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