Books like The Storyteller
12 books with a reading profile close to The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
The Great Alone
history, narrative
In 1974, Ernt Allbright, a former POW struggling with untreated trauma, moves his wife Cora and thirteen-year-old daughter Leni to the remote Alaskan wilderness.
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The Kitchen House
history, narrative
Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan, arrives at a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1791 as an indentured servant.
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3
The Light in Hidden Places
history, narrative
In occupied Poland during 1943, sixteen-year-old Stefania Podgórska works in a grocery store while caring for her six-year-old sister, Helena.
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4
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
by Lisa See
history, narrative
In fifteenth-century China, Tan Yunxian is raised by her physician grandparents to practice medicine, a rare privilege for a woman of the Ming Dynasty.
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5
The Women
history, narrative
Frances "Frankie" McGrath is a twenty-year-old nursing student who enlists in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War.
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The Downstairs Girl
by Stacey Lee
history, narrative
In 1890s Atlanta, Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid by day and lives in a hidden basement beneath a newspaper office by night.
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
history, narrative
Settled in an English village during 1940, the story begins when the local vicar cancels the church choir because all the men have departed for the front.
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The Help
history, narrative
In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, university graduate Skeeter Phelan returns home and finds herself at odds with the rigid social hierarchy of her white peers.
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9
Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
history, narrative
In early 1945, the Soviet army advances through East Prussia, forcing thousands of refugees toward the Baltic coast.
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10
The Lion Women of Tehran
history, narrative
Set in mid-twentieth-century Iran, the narrative follows Homa and Ellie, two girls from disparate socioeconomic backgrounds whose lives intersect in a Tehran classroom.
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11
Rodham
history, narrative
This novel presents a counterfactual history starting in 1971, when Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton meet at Yale Law School.
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Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
history, narrative
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas is seized from her Lithuanian home by the Soviet secret police.
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