Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
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I really liked Pachinko as well as other books PPs have mentioned: The namesake, The Great Believers, A Gentleman in Moscow, Demon Copperhead, Poisonwood Bible, Cutting for Stone, The Kite Runner, City of Girls, Homegoing, Firekeeper's Daughter, The Art of Fielding, An American Marriage, and The Kitchen House
I'll throw in suggestions for The House of the Spirits and the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, This Tender Land and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Apparently, I must also like this type of book! LOL. |
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Thank you for this thread OP! See a lot of favorite books mentioned and many that I want to try.
I’ll add: Annie Proulx’s Shipping News and really anything she’s written Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe - and any of his other works If you haven’t already, read Faulkner and O’Conner so much to love there |
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Did you think it was worth your time to read? (Hard to ask if you "liked" it). |
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Like you, I tend to favor, sweeping historical fiction or quirky modern fiction, with more downs than ups and that stay with you in a haunting way. Repeats here, undoubtedly, from other replies, but I would humbly recommend:
Fifty Words for Rain — Asha Lemmie The Japanese Lover — Isabel Allende Peony in Love — Lisa See (all of her books are incredible tbh) The Immortalists — Chloe Benjamin The German Girl — Armando Lucas Correa The Huntress — Kate Quinn Great Circle — Maggie Shipstead The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern The Kitchen House —Kathleen Grissom The Shell Collector — Anthony Doerr The True Story of Hansel and Gretel — Louise Murphy |
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| +1 to many of these. Only one I'd recommend that I didn't see suggested already is Island of Sea Women. Especially since you liked Pachinko. |
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Free Food for Millionaires
Cane River The Patriots by Sana Krasikov |
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| The covenant of water |
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| The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels |
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| Anything by Howard Norman |
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Wow, have you read it already? How was it? |
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I also loved The Heart's Invisible Furies and Ask Again, Yes.
I recently read and liked The Paper Palace. |
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For Latin America:
Eva Luna 100 years of solitude For Ethiopia and India and America: Cutting for Stone |
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The Cider House Rules
Stone Diaries The God of Small Things Stones from the River |
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The Good of Small Things is dark, intense, dramatic and has so much beautiful color in it. I loved Pachinko and A Little Life as well. |