Books like Washington Black
12 books with a reading profile close to Washington Black by Esi Edugyan. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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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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Caleb's Crossing
history, narrative
Set in the 1660s on Martha's Vineyard, then called Great Harbor, the novel follows Bethia Mayfield, a minister’s daughter who forms a secret friendship with Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain.
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Skeletons at the Feast
history, narrative
In January 1945, as the Red Army advances toward East Prussia, the Emmerich family, who run an estate, decide to flee west.
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The 19th Wife
history, narrative
This novel weaves together two timelines to examine the history and modern reality of polygamy in the American West.
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The Architect's Apprentice
by Elif Shafak
history, narrative
Jahan arrives in sixteenth-century Constantinople as a boy from India, bringing a white elephant named Chota as a gift for Sultan Suleiman.
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The Mountains Sing
history, narrative
Hương, a young girl, narrates the Vietnam War through her family's story, as does her grandmother Diệu Lan, who in the 1950s flees land reform in the north with her children.
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The Last Runaway
history, narrative
In 1850, Honor Bright, a modest Quaker from Dorset, migrates to Ohio to escape a broken engagement.
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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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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
history, narrative
Natalie Haynes re-examines the foundations of Western mythology by tracking how female figures were systematically marginalized or vilified through centuries of translation and artistic interpretation.
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Marvels
by Kurt Busiek
history, narrative
Phil Sheldon, a news photographer, witnesses the emergence of the superhero era in mid-twentieth-century New York.
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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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