Anonymous
Post 05/25/2023 12:29     Subject: Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
Anonymous wrote:The Cider House Rules
Stone Diaries
The God of Small Things
Stones from the River


The Good of Small Things is dark, intense, dramatic and has so much beautiful color in it. I loved Pachinko and A Little Life as well.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2023 11:57     Subject: Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
The Cider House Rules
Stone Diaries
The God of Small Things
Stones from the River
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2023 11:34     Subject: Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
For Latin America:
Eva Luna
100 years of solitude

For Ethiopia and India and America:
Cutting for Stone
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2023 14:17     Subject: Re:Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
I also loved The Heart's Invisible Furies and Ask Again, Yes.

I recently read and liked The Paper Palace.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 16:26     Subject: Re:Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
Anonymous wrote:The covenant of water


Wow, have you read it already? How was it?
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 10:38     Subject: Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
Anything by Howard Norman
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 10:27     Subject: Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 09:27     Subject: Re:Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
The covenant of water
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:41     Subject: Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
Free Food for Millionaires
Cane River
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2023 15:21     Subject: Re:Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
+1 to many of these. Only one I'd recommend that I didn't see suggested already is Island of Sea Women. Especially since you liked Pachinko.
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2023 15:08     Subject: Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
Like you, I tend to favor, sweeping historical fiction or quirky modern fiction, with more downs than ups and that stay with you in a haunting way. Repeats here, undoubtedly, from other replies, but I would humbly recommend:

Fifty Words for Rain — Asha Lemmie
The Japanese Lover — Isabel Allende
Peony in Love — Lisa See (all of her books are incredible tbh)
The Immortalists — Chloe Benjamin
The German Girl — Armando Lucas Correa
The Huntress — Kate Quinn
Great Circle — Maggie Shipstead
The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern
The Kitchen House —Kathleen Grissom
The Shell Collector — Anthony Doerr
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel — Louise Murphy
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 11:56     Subject: Re:Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
Anonymous wrote:A Fine Balance...nothing but anguish!


Did you think it was worth your time to read? (Hard to ask if you "liked" it).
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 11:47     Subject: Re:Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
Thank you for this thread OP! See a lot of favorite books mentioned and many that I want to try.

I’ll add:

Annie Proulx’s Shipping News and really anything she’s written

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe - and any of his other works

If you haven’t already, read Faulkner and O’Conner so much to love there

Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 11:38     Subject: Re:Can you rec more books like this? (A Little Life, Pachinko, She's Come Undone...)
I really liked Pachinko as well as other books PPs have mentioned: The namesake, The Great Believers, A Gentleman in Moscow, Demon Copperhead, Poisonwood Bible, Cutting for Stone, The Kite Runner, City of Girls, Homegoing, Firekeeper's Daughter, The Art of Fielding, An American Marriage, and The Kitchen House

I'll throw in suggestions for The House of the Spirits and the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, This Tender Land and A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Apparently, I must also like this type of book! LOL.