Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)

[Anonymous]

I like less happy books, books about trials and tribulations, stories across years. Just finished A Little Life and really liked it.

[Anonymous]

Have you tried running that title through Good reads or Amazon and scrolled down to see what comes up in the list of "people who read this also bought..."?

[Anonymous]

Life After Life
All the Light We Cannot See
Love in the Time of Cholera
Pillars of the Earth
Sarah’s Key

[Anonymous]

I know this much is true (wally lamb)
The namesake (jhumpa lahiri)

[Anonymous]

Black Flower

[Anonymous]

The God of Small Things
A God in Ruins (IMO, better than Life After Life)
Shuggie Bain
Middlesex
Hamnet

[Anonymous]

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

[Anonymous]

The Great Believers
A Gentleman in Moscow
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

[Anonymous]

Wallace Stegner books

[Anonymous]

Imagine Me Gone
Notes on an Execution
I Know This Much Is True

[Anonymous]

I love books like that too and it’s hard to top Little Life. Here’s some I think you’d like:
Demon Copperhead
Poisonwood Bible
Cutting for Stone
The Goldfinch
The Most Fun We Ever Had
The Dutch House
The Condition
Did You Ever Have a Family
Ask Again, Yes

[Anonymous]

+1 on loving the bleak books. 5 stars for me over the past few years:

Old Filth trilogy by Jane Gardam (pretty much anything by her actually)
The Juniper Tree and Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
The Bird Family Trilogy by Joseph Boyden (Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce, and The Orenda)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Any Alice Munro short story collection
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The My Struggle series by Karl Ove Knausgard
Freya by Anthony Quinn
A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Villavicencio
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
Anything by Sarah Moss
Patience by Toby Litt
Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Anything by Claire Keegan

[Anonymous]

Cutting for Stone
The Overstory
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Kite Runner

[Anonymous]

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

[Anonymous]

isabel allende books usually tell a story across generations.