Books like The Invention of Wings
If you liked The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Winter Garden
Because shares tags: historical fiction, sisters.
Two sisters keep a deathbed promise: hear their cold mother's Russian fairy tale to the end, and find besieged Leningrad inside it.
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The Kitchen House
Because shares tags: historical fiction, slavery.
Irish orphan Lavinia is raised by enslaved cooks in the kitchen house, then torn between that family and the big house.
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Homegoing
Because shares tags: historical fiction, slavery.
Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.
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The Underground Railroad
Because shares tags: historical fiction, slavery.
Cora escapes Georgia on a literal railroad through states of terror and hope.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Because shares tags: historical fiction, sisters.
Mary Boleyn tells how she and sister Anne loved Henry VIII and paid for ambition at the Tudor court.
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Beloved
Because shares tags: historical fiction, slavery.
Sethe lives with the memory of killing her child to save her from slavery until a young woman named Beloved arrives.
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Before We Were Yours
Because shares tags: historical fiction, sisters.
Avery uncovers her family's link to stolen orphans while Rill fights to keep her siblings together in 1939.
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The Nightingale
Because shares tags: historical fiction, sisters.
Nightingale retold: Vianne and Isabelle in occupied France, hide children, run routes, trials.
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The Secret Life of Bees
Because also by Sue Monk Kidd; shares tag: historical fiction.
Lily runs from her father with Rosaleen to Tiburon, finding shelter with beekeeping sisters.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Because shares tag: feminism.
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
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Voyager
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Because shares tag: feminism.
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
