Books like The Good Earth
If you liked The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Because shares tags: classics, family, poverty.
Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift…
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The Red Tent
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family, classics.
Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.
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The Joy Luck Club
Because shares tags: classics, family, china.
Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Because shares tags: classics, historical fiction.
Enslaved Tom, Eliza, and George face sale and escape under Southern law.
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The Pearl
Because shares tags: classics, family.
Off La Paz, poor diver Kino finds a great pearl for his baby son Coyotito, but cheating dealers and greed force a flight ending in loss.
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Life After Life
Because shares tags: family, historical fiction.
Ursula Todd dies and restarts through wars, flus, and bad marriages.
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Kindred
Because shares tags: historical fiction, classics.
Dana pulled from 1976 to slave Maryland must save Rufus who owns her kin.
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David Copperfield
Because shares tags: classics, family.
Orphan Davy from Blunderstone through Murdstone, Micawber, Heep, Dora and Agnes to novelist.
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Between Shades of Gray
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family.
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is deported from Lithuania to Siberia and uses her drawings to survive and send word to her father.
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Are You My Mother?
Because shares tags: family, classics.
A newborn bird falls from the nest and asks a kitten, a hen, a dog, a cow, a plane and a giant Snort if any will be his mother.
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Drums of Autumn
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family.
Brianna crosses stones to save parents, finding love, assault fallout, and a home to build.
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Winter Garden
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family.
Two sisters keep a deathbed promise: hear their cold mother's Russian fairy tale to the end, and find besieged Leningrad inside it.
