Books like

Books like Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

12 books with a reading profile close to Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

La tregua

by Mario Benedetti

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office worker, is nearing retirement.
2

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set in the frozen landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story follows Ethan Frome, a farmer trapped in a hollow marriage to his sickly, suspicious wife, Zeena.
3

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
4

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man, has moved to a remote cabin in eastern Norway to live alone with his dog.
5

The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

The narrative follows the Ganguli family, beginning with Ashoke and Ashima’s arranged marriage and subsequent relocation from Calcutta to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
6

Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
7

Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates thirteen months of adolescence in a claustrophobic Worcestershire village during 1982.
8

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
9

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
10

A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

In 1979, aging Iowa farmer Larry Cook decides to divide his namesake farm among his three daughters: Ginny, Rose, and Tyra.
11

The Mothers

by Brit Bennett

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set in a Black community in Oceanside, California, the story follows Nadia Turner, a grieving seventeen-year-old who begins a secret relationship with the pastor’s son, Luke Sheppard.
12

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.

Get picks matched to your own reading on papr.

Get papr

Your library, beautifully understood.