Books like The Yearling
12 books with a reading profile close to The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
Christmas Carol and Other Stories
Also contemplative and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly lender in Victorian London who views charity as a waste and poverty as a personal failing.
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2
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, literary
Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, inherits her father’s struggling farm amid a harsh prairie landscape.
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3
The Enchanted April
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Living in the persistent grey of 1920s London, Lotty Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot answer a classified advertisement for a month-long rental at an Italian castle.
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4
Post Office
narrative, literary
Henry Chinaski is a hard-drinking, hard-gambling, constantly broke man who takes a job as a substitute mail carrier in Los Angeles.
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5
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in 1962 Minnesota, the story follows eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who believes his father, Jeremiah, performs literal miracles.
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6
By Any Other Name
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, literary
This novel follows two women separated by centuries who both navigate the constraints placed on female authorship.
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7
Iki Sehrin Hikayesi
narrative, literary
Set against the violent backdrop of the French Revolution, this narrative follows Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat seeking to escape his family heritage, and Sydney Carton, a cynical English lawyer.
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8
Empire Falls
narrative, literary
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill, a greasy spoon in a decaying Maine logging town owned by the wealthy Whiting family.
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9
The Palace of Illusions
narrative, literary
This retelling of the Mahabharata is narrated by Panchaali, also called Draupadi, who emerges from a sacrificial fire to marry the five Pandava brothers.
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10
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Also 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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11
The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
Also contemplative and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Della and Jim Young are a young married couple in New York who are very poor.
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12
Evangeline
narrative, literary
Set in 1755 during the Expulsion of the Acadians, this epic poem follows the separation of two lovers, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse.
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