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Books Like The Round House

by Louise Erdrich · about this book

Loved The Round House by Louise Erdrich? If its first person narrator, sexual assault content and sexual assault hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Kite Runner, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and To Kill a Mockingbird. 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 The Round House: First Person Narrator · Sexual Assault Content · Sexual Assault · Indigenous Identity · Literary Fiction

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   The Kite Runner

   Khaled Hosseini

   Sexual Assault Content · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Father and Son

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   The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

   Stephen Graham Jones

   Indigenous Identity · Racial Violence · Haunting · Revenge Plot · Literary Fiction

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   To Kill a Mockingbird

   Harper Lee

   Loss of Innocence · Racial Violence · Coming of Age · Racism · Literary Fiction

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   The Lovely Bones

   Alice Sebold

   Sexual Assault Content · Loss of Innocence · Teen Protagonist · Tragic · Literary Fiction

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   Gather

   Kenneth M. Cadow

   Coming of Age · Teen Protagonist · Character-Driven · Small Town · Male Lead

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   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Loss of Innocence · Coming of Age · Tragic · Teen Protagonist · Emotional

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

   R.F. Kuang

   Cultural Identity · Racism · Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Friendship and Betrayal

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8. 

   We Begin at the End

   Chris Whitaker

   Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Teen Protagonist · Emotional · Coming of Age

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9. 

   Never Let Me Go

   Kazuo Ishiguro

   Loss of Innocence · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator

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10. 

    The Giver

    Lois Lowry

    Rite of Passage · Loss of Innocence · Coming of Age · Haunting · Teen Protagonist

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11. 

    The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

    Robert Dugoni

    Coming of Age · Friendship and Betrayal · Character-Driven · Racism · Emotional

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12. 

    The Knife of Never Letting Go

    Patrick Ness

    Loss of Innocence · Teen Protagonist · Coming of Age · Tragic · Family Secrets

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13. 

    Cutting for Stone

    Abraham Verghese

    Father and Son · Literary Fiction · Friendship and Betrayal · Family Secrets · Coming of Age

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14. 

    The Other Side of the Bridge

    Mary Lawson

    Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Character-Driven · Father and Son · Small Town

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15. 

    The Catcher in the Rye

    Jerome David Salinger

    Loss of Innocence · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction · Teen Protagonist · Character-Driven

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    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Sexual Assault Content · Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Haunting

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17. 

    Long Bright River

    Liz Moore

    Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets · First Person Narrator · Sexual Assault

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18. 

    Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Coming of Age · Racial Violence · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets

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    Sabrina & Corina

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine

    Indigenous Identity · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Haunting

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    Malas

    Marcela Fuentes

    Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets · Small Town · Character-Driven

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