Amitav Ghosh 2005
- What it is
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Strangers who become a family · a world to get lost in
- Genre
- Historical fiction Literary Classics
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Adventurous and found family
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Robert A. Heinlein 1961
Like yours: found family · full of big ideas
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Adventurous and epic
Gates of fire
Steven Pressfield 1998
Grouped with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
The House of the Spirits
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You won't want to come back · it leaves you shaken
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien 1972
Just as wondrous and epic, but more melancholic
Shogun
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You won't want to come back · a big story that sweeps you along
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
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A world to get lost in · full of big ideas
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Love in the middle of danger · an adventure with a love story in it
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It grabs you with a mystery · you can't put it down
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A world to get lost in · love in the middle of danger
Ilium
Dan Simmons 2006
Full of big ideas · a myth or a classic told anew
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Only adventurous
Cold mountain
Charles Frazier 1997
Readers put them together in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
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Paulette Jiles 2016
A reader shelved it with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
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Nicola Griffith 2022
Love in the middle of danger · an adventure with a love story in it
Nautical Chart
Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2000
It messes with your head · it changes how you see things
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse 1951
It stays with you · one to read slowly
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard 2000
A world to get lost in · in search of a lost world or a treasure
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead 2021
As atmospheric and adventurous as yours, only more bittersweet and mysterious
True Grit
Charles Portis 1969
Sharp and very funny · outlaws and guns in the West
The left hand of darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
It leaves you thinking · tender and sad at once
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe 1800
It makes you think, without a lecture · surviving with everything scarce
2 books · Alike in just one
Only found family
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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Like yours: found family · it leaves you shaken
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman 2017
Like yours: found family · funny and sad at once
5 books · Alike in just one
Only epic
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe 1958
Grouped with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault 1972
Readers put them together in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee 2017
It makes you cry, in a good way · fierce and defiant
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell 1992
Love hurts sometimes · a big story that sweeps you along
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A reader shelved it with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
Silence of the Girls
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It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
The Silver Pigs
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Readers put them together in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
Under the volcano
Malcolm Lowry 1947
It stays with you · it tells it with no filter
The Emperor's Children
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It leaves you thinking · sad, and in no hurry
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No clean hands here · it tells it with no filter
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Odd and endearing · sharp and very funny
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It's hiding a secret · nobody is entirely good
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
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Love hurts sometimes · it leaves you with a warm feeling
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Comforting, like coming home · it stays with you
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It leaves you thinking · tender and sad at once
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