Books like Transcription
12 books with a reading profile close to Transcription by Kate Atkinson. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
history, narrative
In 1630s Amsterdam, Sara de Vos becomes the first woman admitted to a professional painters' guild, struggling against poverty to create a haunting winter landscape.
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2
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
history, narrative
John Berendt’s narrative follows his relocation to Savannah, Georgia, where he documents the eccentric subcultures of the city’s high society and underground circles.
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3
The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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4
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
narrative, mystery
Maali Almeida, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man, wakes up dead in a visa office in the afterlife with no idea how he died.
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5
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
history, narrative
In 1799, Jacob de Zoet, a young Dutch clerk, arrives at Dejima, the artificial island in Nagasaki harbor that is Japan's only trading link with the West.
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6
Disappearing Earth
narrative, mystery
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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7
I Have Some Questions for You
narrative, mystery
Bodie Kane, a successful film scholar and podcaster, returns to Granby School, the New Hampshire boarding school where she spent four uncomfortable years.
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8
The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
history, narrative
In late Victorian England, newly widowed Cora Seaborne relocates to the Essex coast to pursue her interests as a naturalist.
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9
De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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10
Deacon King Kong
narrative, mystery
Set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969, the story begins when Sportcoat, an aging, hard-drinking church deacon, shoots a young drug dealer named Deems Clemens in broad daylight.
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11
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
history, narrative
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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12
Horse
history, narrative
Geraldine Brooks tracks the history of Lexington, a record-breaking 19th-century Thoroughbred, across three distinct timelines.
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