Books like The Shipping News
12 books with a reading profile close to The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Set in early twentieth-century Maine, the narrative follows Homer Wells, a perpetual orphan raised at St.
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Still Life
by Sarah Winman
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
In 1944, British soldier Ulysses Temper meets art historian Evelyn Skinner in a ruined Tuscan cellar.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
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The House of the Spirits
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
In post-war North London, two former soldiers, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, navigate a cityscape shaped by the aftermath of the British Empire.
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Sister Carrie
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
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Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
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The History of Love
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
The story follows Leo Gursky, an elderly locksmith in New York who avoids solitude by making himself seen in public, unaware that a manual he wrote in Poland sixty years ago survived the Holocaust.
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Ethan Frome
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
Set in the frozen landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story follows Ethan Frome, a farmer trapped in a hollow marriage to his sickly, suspicious wife, Zeena.
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Bless Me, Ultima
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Six-year-old Antonio Márez grows up in a New Mexico village in the 1940s, in a household divided between his father's wandering family and his mother's farming one.
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The Winter of Our Discontent
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
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