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Frances Hodgson Burnettstandalone novel1905

About class conflict, set in 19th century.

“All three versions tell the story of Sara Crewe, a wealthy young girl and the prize student of a private London boarding school who is reduced to poverty and forced to endure the life of a servant under the school's cruel headmistress.”
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Utopia AvenueNovel

David Mitchellstandalone novel2020

About music and friendship, set in mid 20th century.

A Monster CallsSeries

series2 books2011

Fantasy, about grief and loss, set in contemporary.

“A Monster Calls follows a boy struggling with his mother's terminal illness, who is visited each night by a tree-like monster demanding an honest story from him in exchange for the unsettling tales it tells.”
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Oxford Time TravelSeries

series6 books1982

Science fiction and time travel, tense in tone, set in europe.

“Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events.”
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Empire of the SunSeries

series2 books1984

completed

Reflective in tone, set in east asia.

“J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun draws on his own childhood to follow Jim, a British boy separated from his parents in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II and interned in a civilian camp for the rest of the war.”
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SlamNovel

Nick Hornbystandalone novel2007

About parenthood, set in contemporary.

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