Books like The Velveteen Rabbit
12 books with a reading profile close to The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
Sea Prayer
Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative
Written as a letter from a father to his sleeping son, this short narrative poem describes a family waiting on a dark beach to board a boat.
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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative
An aging mathematician sits on a park bench that exists inside his mind, struggling to retain his memories as dementia begins to erase his world.
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa
Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative
The story follows Nana, a former stray cat with a hooked tail, and his owner, Satoru, as they drive across Japan in a silver van.
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Crossing to Safety
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Wallace Stegner’s final novel tracks the lifelong bond between two couples, Larry and Sally McKelvey and Charity and Sid Lang, beginning in 1937 Madison, Wisconsin.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Francie Nolan grows up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative
Edward Tulane is a china rabbit with an expansive wardrobe of silk suits and a pocket watch, living with a girl named Abilene.
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The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Della and Jim Young are a young married couple in New York who are very poor.
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8
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Six-year-old Sophia and her elderly grandmother spend their summer months on a tiny, granite island in the Gulf of Finland.
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9
Kitchen
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Mikage Sakurai is a young woman struggling with the isolating vacuum of grief after her last living relative dies.
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The Little Match Girl
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
On a freezing New Year’s Eve, a young girl wanders the streets barefoot, unable to return home because she has not sold any matches.
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ruth Young, a ghostwriter in San Francisco, struggles to communicate with her mother, LuLing, whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic due to dementia.
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Molly Bolt grows up in impoverished rural Florida and York, Pennsylvania, refusing to conform to the expectations of her adoptive mother or the social dictates of the mid-twentieth century.
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