Books like Unsheltered
12 books with a reading profile close to Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
People of the Book
narrative, literary
Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book conservator, travels to Sarajevo in 1996 to restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, a fourteenth-century Hebrew manuscript.
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2
The Red Garden
narrative, literary
Blackwell, Massachusetts, is a small town in the Berkshires founded in the 1750s by settlers who endure a brutal first winter.
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3
Flight Behavior
narrative, literary
Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless farm wife in rural Tennessee, discovers a valley filled with millions of monarch butterflies that have deviated from their typical migration path to Mexico.
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4
Clear
by Carys Davies
narrative, literary
Set in 1843 during the final stages of the Highland Clearances, the story follows John Ferguson, an impoverished minister sent to a remote Shetland island to evict its last remaining inhabitant.
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5
News of the World
narrative, literary
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels across North Texas, reading international newspapers to paying audiences in small towns.
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6
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
by Renée Nault
narrative, literary
In this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s narrative, Offred navigates the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, a regime that has replaced the United States government with a strict religious hierarchy.
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
narrative, literary
These twelve stories, written over eighteen years, are about Latin Americans who find themselves in Europe, mainly in Barcelona, Rome, Geneva and Paris.
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8
Colored Television
by Danzy Senna
narrative, literary
Jane, a biracial novelist living in Los Angeles, struggles to finish her second book after a decade of labor.
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9
Torto Arado
narrative, literary
Two sisters, Bibiana and Belonísia, grow up in a farming community of descendants of enslaved people in the backlands of Bahia, Brazil.
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10
The Pull of the Stars
narrative, literary
The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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11
Year of Wonders
narrative, literary
In 1665, a tailor in the isolated English village of Eyam receives a parcel of cloth from London infested with plague-carrying fleas.
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12
Table for Two
by Amor Towles
narrative, literary
In "Table for Two," Amor Towles weaves together interconnected stories set in post-war New York and California.
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