Books like V13
12 books with a reading profile close to V13 by Emmanuel Carrère. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
In Cold Blood
Also deep · history, analytical
In 1959, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith entered the Clutter family home in Holcomb, Kansas, and murdered four people.
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2
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
Also deep · history, analytical
Anne Fadiman details the medical crisis of Lia Lee, a Hmong child in California diagnosed with severe epilepsy.
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3
The Message
Also deep · history, analytical
In this collection of three essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates examines how narrative shapes political reality and serves as a tool for both liberation and control.
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4
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
history, analytical
Katherine Boo tracks the interconnected lives of several residents in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement bordering the luxury hotels of Mumbai’s international airport.
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5
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C Pam Zhang
Also deep · history, narrative
Set against the declining years of the American Gold Rush, the novel follows Lucy and Sam, two orphaned siblings of Chinese descent, as they carry their father’s decomposing body across a harsh western landscape.
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The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
Also deep · history, narrative
In the early seventeenth century, a young servant girl escapes a starving, disease-ridden colonial settlement in North America, fleeing alone into the winter wilderness.
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7
The Night Watchman
Also deep · history, narrative
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at a jewel-bearing plant in rural North Dakota in 1953, and also a Chippewa council member.
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8
Matrix
by Lauren Groff
history, narrative
Cast out from the royal court of Eleanor of Aquitaine, seventeen-year-old Marie of France arrives at a destitute English abbey to serve as its new prioress.
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9
The Lacuna
history, narrative
The novel follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man navigating the political upheaval of mid-twentieth-century Mexico and the United States.
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10
The Poisonwood Bible
Also deep · history, narrative
Nathan Price, a rigid evangelical Baptist, moves his wife Orleanna and their four daughters from Georgia to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
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ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
Also deep · analytical, narrative
Omar El Akkad’s collection of essays examines the cognitive dissonance inherent in Western humanitarian responses to global atrocities.
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The Feast of the Goat
Also deep · history, narrative
Urania Cabral, now a New York lawyer, comes back to the Dominican Republic after thirty-five years to see her sick father, who once served in Rafael Trujillo's government.
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