If you liked the literary fiction plot in The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. The Finishing School
By: Muriel Spark
3.10
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, in… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
2. Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
By: Margaret Atwood , Alice Munro
4.16
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from acros… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"He realized that he knew hardly anything about her – what kind of person she really was or what kind of secrets she could have. He could not even estimate his own value to her. He only knew that he h…"-Margaret Atwood, Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
"People open shops in order to sell things, they hope to become busy so that they will have to enlarge the shop, then to sell more things, and grow rich, and eventually not have to come into the shop …"-Margaret Atwood, Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
3. Winter in the Blood
By: James Welch
3.82
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"He had followed the calendar, the years, time- Bird farted. And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it…"-James Welch, Winter in the Blood
4. Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
By: Susan Hill
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is a year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors. Early one autu… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- germany
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
6. Master Georgie
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 and Booker Prize Nominee that … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Transit of Venus
By: Shirley Hazzard
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England t… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Fire on the Mountain
By: Anita Desai
4.01
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A classic from one of India's greatest writers with a stunning new cover in water colour. Gone are … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. The Voyage of the Narwhal
By: Andrea Barrett
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration--the mid-nineteenth century romance with t… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
10. The Shadow-Line
By: Joseph Conrad , Jeremy Hawthorn
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Lineis based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlie… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
12. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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13. Aiding and Abetting
By: Muriel Spark
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Aiding and Abetting, the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversiv… read more
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14. Memento Mori
By: Muriel Spark
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on … read more
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15. Make Someone Happy: Favorite Postings
By: Elizabeth Berg
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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16. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
17. The All of It
By: Jeannette Haien
4.67
Format: None pages,
Jeannette Haien's award-winning first novel relates the seemingly simple tale of a parishioner conf… read more
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18. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
By: Hermione Lee
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself … read more
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19. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- germany
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
20. The Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
3.95
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
21. Mater 2-10
By: Hwang Sok-yong
3.67
Format: 486 pages, Paperback
International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
