Books like What Is the What
12 books with a reading profile close to What Is the What by Dave Eggers. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
biography, narrative
This historical novel depicts the scandalous love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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2
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
by Jeff Hobbs
biography, narrative
Jeff Hobbs chronicles the life of his Yale roommate, Robert Peace, a gifted student from Newark, New Jersey, who navigated the tensions between an elite Ivy League education and his neighborhood roots.
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3
Leonard Woolf
biography, narrative
Victoria Glendinning presents Leonard Woolf as a significant political architect and intellectual, moving beyond his common historical framing as Virginia Woolf’s caretaker.
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4
March
narrative, literary
This novel reimagines the American Civil War from the perspective of John March, the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
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5
The Master Butchers Singing Club
narrative, literary
Fidelis Waldvogel returns to Germany from the First World War with a sniper's skill and a plan to become a butcher like his father.
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6
How the García girls lost their accents
narrative, literary
The narrative follows the four García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—as they flee the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic to settle in New York City.
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7
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Also deep · narrative, literary
Sherman Alexie's linked stories follow Native American characters on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State.
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8
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
biography, narrative
In 1992, Chris McCandless abandoned his possessions and middle-class expectations to live off the land in the Alaskan interior.
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9
Arcadia
by Lauren Groff
Also deep · narrative, literary
Bit Arcadia is born in a commune in upstate New York in the 1970s, the first child born there.
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10
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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11
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
narrative, literary
Set in the humid landscape of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, the narrative follows fifteen-year-old Esch and her three brothers during the twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.
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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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