Books like…

Books Like Little Bee

by Chris Cleave · about this book

Loved Little Bee by Chris Cleave? If its multiple pov, emotional and female lead hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Kite Runner, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and The Nightingale. 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 Little Bee: Multiple POV · Emotional · Female Lead · Immigrant Protagonist · Character-Driven

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   The Kite Runner

   Khaled Hosseini

   Refugee Experience · Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Sexual Assault Content · Literary Fiction

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   On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

   Ocean Vuong

   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · War Trauma · PTSD · Character-Driven

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   The Nightingale

   Kristin Hannah

   War Trauma · Sexual Assault Content · Character-Driven · Emotional · Multiple POV

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   The Last Rose of Shanghai

   Weina Dai Randel

   Refugee Experience · Wealthy Protagonist · Immigration · Emotional · First Person Narrator

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   Nowhere Boy

   Katherine Marsh

   Refugee Experience · Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Emotional · Character-Driven

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   Night Watch

   Jayne Anne Phillips

   War Trauma · PTSD · Literary Fiction · Sexual Assault · Character-Driven

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   These Silent Woods

   Kimi Cunningham Grant

   War Trauma · PTSD · Character-Driven · Tense and Suspenseful · First Person Narrator

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8. 

   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Emotional

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9. 

   Black Cake

   Charmaine Wilkerson

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Emotional

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10. 

    The Golem and the Jinni

    Helene Wecker

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Multiple POV

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11. 

    Cutting for Stone

    Abraham Verghese

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Emotional · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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12. 

    The German Wife

    Kelly Rimmer

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Emotional · Character-Driven · Multiple POV

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13. 

    Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction

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14. 

    All the Broken Places

    John Boyne

    London · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Emotional · First Person Narrator

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15. 

    The Lovely Bones

    Alice Sebold

    Sexual Assault Content · Literary Fiction · Emotional · First Person Narrator · Female Lead

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16. 

    The Weight of Ink

    Rachel Kadish

    Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · London · Multiple POV

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17. 

    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Wealthy Protagonist · Character-Driven · Emotional · Literary Fiction · Female Lead

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18. 

    Good Morning, Monster

    Catherine Gildiner

    PTSD · Sexual Assault · Emotional · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator

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19. 

    Long Bright River

    Liz Moore

    Sexual Assault · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator · Emotional

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    The Bookbinder

    Pip Williams

    Refugee Experience · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator · Emotional

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