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Books Like Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese · about this book

Loved Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese? If its literary fiction, twins and hospital hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Kite Runner, Pachinko and The Other Side of the Bridge. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Cutting for Stone: Literary Fiction · Twins · Hospital · Medicine · Brothers

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   The Kite Runner

   Khaled Hosseini

   Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Father and Son · Family Secrets · Historical Fiction

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   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic · Bittersweet · Brothers

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   The Other Side of the Bridge

   Mary Lawson

   Brothers · Literary Fiction · Father and Son · Bittersweet · Coming of Age

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   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Brothers · Bittersweet · Emotional · Death of a Parent · Character-Driven

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   Middlesex

   Jeffrey Eugenides

   Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic · Family Secrets · Character-Driven

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   Of Human Bondage

   W. Somerset Maugham

   Literary Fiction · Hospital · Bittersweet · Absent Parent · Death of a Parent

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   A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

   Anthony Marra

   Hospital · Medicine · Literary Fiction · Friendship and Betrayal · Bittersweet

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   Black Cake

   Charmaine Wilkerson

   Immigrant Protagonist · Death of a Parent · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Character-Driven

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9. 

   Memoirs of a Geisha

   Arthur Golden

   Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Friendship and Betrayal · Death of a Parent · Coming of Age

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10. 

    The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

    Robert Dugoni

    Friendship and Betrayal · Medicine · Emotional · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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11. 

    This Is Where I Leave You

    Jonathan Tropper

    Brothers · Death of a Parent · Bittersweet · Character-Driven · Family Secrets

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12. 

    The Secret Life of Bees

    Sue Monk Kidd

    Death of a Parent · Family Secrets · Absent Parent · Historical Fiction · Emotional

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13. 

    The Second Life of Mirielle West

    Amanda Skenandore

    Hospital · Medicine · Character-Driven · Emotional · Historical Fiction

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    Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    R.F. Kuang

    Immigrant Protagonist · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Friendship and Betrayal · Found Family

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15. 

    Little

    Edward Carey

    Death of a Parent · Bittersweet · Coming of Age · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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16. 

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    Diana Gabaldon

    Medicine · Graphic Medical Content · Sprawling Epic · Historical Fiction · Father and Son

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17. 

    Malas

    Marcela Fuentes

    Literary Fiction · Family Secrets · Coming of Age · Character-Driven · Bittersweet

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18. 

    Ship of Magic

    Robin Hobb

    Sprawling Epic · Coming of Age · Death of a Parent · Character-Driven · Family Secrets

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19. 

    Firefly Lane

    Kristin Hannah

    Friendship and Betrayal · Bittersweet · Absent Parent · Coming of Age · Character-Driven

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    Dawn of Wonder

    Jonathan Renshaw

    Sprawling Epic · Father and Son · Character-Driven · Death of a Parent · Friendship and Betrayal

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