Books like The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
12 books with a reading profile close to The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs. Inward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
-
1
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
Also inward-looking · biography, narrative
This historical novel depicts the scandalous love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
-
2
What Is the What
by Dave Eggers
biography, narrative
Based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, this narrative documents the survival of a Sudanese refugee during the Second Sudanese Civil War.
-
3
Leonard Woolf
biography, narrative
Victoria Glendinning presents Leonard Woolf as a significant political architect and intellectual, moving beyond his common historical framing as Virginia Woolf’s caretaker.
-
4
Lust for Life
by Irving Stone
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Irving Stone chronicles the turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh, beginning with his failed attempt to serve as a missionary in the impoverished Borinage coal mines.
-
5
The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain
Also inward-looking · biography, narrative
Hadley Richardson, a quiet woman from St.
-
6
Becoming Mrs. Lewis
Also inward-looking · biography, narrative
Joy Davidman is a gifted American writer and mother trapped in a disintegrating marriage when she begins a long-distance correspondence with C.S.
-
7
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.
-
8
The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
Also inward-looking · 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.
-
9
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.
-
10
Honor
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.
-
11
Take My Hand
narrative, literary
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights era nurse Civil Townsend begins working at a federally funded family planning clinic.
-
12
The Space Between Us
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Sera Dubash is a Parsi woman in Mumbai who has employed Bhima as a maid for over twenty years.
Get picks matched to your own reading on papr.
Get papr
