Books like The Winter Soldier
12 books with a reading profile close to The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
Set in the early 1970s New York rock scene, this oral history follows the rise and fracturing of an unlikely musical duo.
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Mudbound
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
In 1946, Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a primitive cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta.
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Betty
history, literary
Set in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains during the mid-twentieth century, the narrative follows Betty Carpenter, one of eight siblings born to a white mother and a Cherokee father.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
In 1930s British Malaya, Cecily Alcantara works as a low-level clerk while feeling the sting of colonial hierarchy.
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5
A Northern Light
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, the story follows Mattie Gokey, a farm girl torn between a university scholarship and her obligations to her widowed father and siblings.
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6
The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
Asya Kazancı is a nineteen-year-old Turkish girl in Istanbul, raised in a household of women, with no knowledge of who her father is.
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7
American Wife
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
Alice Blackwell, a quiet, bookish girl from Wisconsin, becomes a librarian and a teacher, and later marries Charlie Blackwell, a wealthy Republican who becomes President of the United States.
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Caleb's Crossing
history, literary
Set in the 1660s on Martha's Vineyard, then called Great Harbor, the novel follows Bethia Mayfield, a minister’s daughter who forms a secret friendship with Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain.
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Manhattan Beach
history, literary
Set in New York City during the Great Depression and World War II, the narrative follows Anna Kerrigan as she maneuvers through the male-dominated Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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The Mad Women's Ball
by Victoria Mas
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
Set in 1885 at the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris, the narrative follows Eugénie Cléry, a young woman committed to the institution by her father after she reveals her ability to speak with spirits.
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Yellow Wife
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
Born into a life of relative privilege on a Virginia plantation, Pheby Delores Brown is promised her freedom at age eighteen.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Also thought-provoking · history, literary
In 1960, three of the four Mirabal sisters were beaten to death on a road in the Dominican Republic because they had opposed the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
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