Books like Water for Elephants
12 books with a reading profile close to Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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A Girl Called Samson
by Amy Harmon
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Deborah Samson, an indentured servant in late eighteenth-century Massachusetts, secures her freedom only to encounter the limitations placed on women during the American Revolution.
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The Giver of Stars
by Jojo Moyes
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set in Depression-era Kentucky, Alice Wright marries a handsome American to escape her stifling life in England, only to find herself trapped in a rigid, judgmental coal town.
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3
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough, Colleen McCullough
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set in the rugged Australian outback during the early twentieth century, this multi-generational saga follows the Cleary family as they struggle to maintain a sheep station called Drogheda.
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4
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Marjorie Merriweather Post inherits his father’s Postum Cereal Company at age twenty-seven, transforming a modest family business into the massive General Foods corporation.
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5
The Boleyn Inheritance
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Philippa Gregory’s novel follows three women navigating the treacherous final years of Henry VIII's reign.
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Out of the Easy
by Ruta Sepetys
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in 1950 New Orleans, the story follows Josie Moraine, the daughter of a French Quarter prostitute.
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7
The Paris Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1939 Paris, Elise Duval and Juliette Foulon are friends and mothers whose lives fracture when the German occupation begins.
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8
Lovely War
by Julie Berry
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set in 1917 and 1944, this historical novel uses Greek deities as narrators to chronicle two unfolding romances during World War I.
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The Sandcastle Girls
Also clear-cut · history, romance
In 1915, Elizabeth Endicott travels from Boston to Aleppo with a relief committee to provide food and medical aid to Armenian refugees.
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10
The Beginning of Everything
romance, narrative
Ezra Faulkner believes that everyone encounters a single tragedy that defines their personal history.
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The Book of Lost Names
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1942, Eva Traube flees Paris for a mountain town near the Swiss border after the authorities arrest her father.
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The Briar Club
by Kate Quinn
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1950s Washington, D.C., Grace March moves into Briarwood House, a female-only boarding establishment during the height of the Red Scare.
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