Books like The Women in the Castle
12 books with a reading profile close to The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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China Dolls
by Lisa See
history, narrative
In 1938 San Francisco, three young women from different backgrounds—Grace, Helen, and Ruby—meet while auditioning for the Forbidden City nightclub.
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The Glassmaker
history, narrative
In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the daughter of a master glassmaker on Murano, the island near Venice where the city's glass is made under strict guild rules.
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The Bookbinder
by Pip Williams
history, narrative
Peggy Jones works in the bindery of Oxford University Press during the First World War, spending her days folding printed sheets for books she is not permitted to read.
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The Marriage of Opposites
history, narrative
Set on the island of Saint Thomas in the early nineteenth century, this novel follows Rachel Pomie, a woman born into a strict Sephardic Jewish community.
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Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
history, narrative
In 1830s Philadelphia, James Pyke lives as a wealthy white gentleman, concealing his identity as the son of a black runaway from the Pyke plantation.
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The Great Divide
history, narrative
The story reconstructs the construction of the Panama Canal through the intersecting lives of marginalized laborers and local residents.
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River Sing Me Home
history, narrative
Set in the aftermath of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act in the Caribbean, the story follows Rachel, a field hand on a Barbados plantation.
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Remarkable Creatures
history, narrative
In early nineteenth-century Lyme Regis, Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot form an unlikely friendship based on their shared pursuit of fossils along the Jurassic Coast.
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The Chaperone
history, narrative
In 1922, Cora Carlisle, a conventional Kansas housewife, agrees to chaperone fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks on a summer trip to New York City.
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
history, narrative
Margaret George captures the life of England’s most notorious monarch through a fictionalized memoir discovered centuries after his death.
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
history, narrative
In 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla Caudill, a spirited girl with a hard home life, runs away.
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