Books like The Wonder
12 books with a reading profile close to The Wonder by Emma Donoghue. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In 1996, restless teenagers Frankie Budge and Zeke create a cryptic poster featuring a drawing of a person holding a severed head and a mysterious sentence about a "coal child." They secretly photocopy and distribute th…
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2
Ordinary Grace
narrative, mystery
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.
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3
Disappearing Earth
narrative, mystery
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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4
De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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5
Greenwood
narrative, mystery
The novel follows the Greenwood family across four generations, structured like the rings of a tree from 2038 back to 1908.
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6
The Lie Tree
narrative, mystery
Faith Sunderly is a fourteen-year-old girl in Victorian England whose family moves to a small island after a scandal involving her father, Reverend Sunderly, a respected naturalist who is suspected of fraud.
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7
Snow Falling on Cedars
narrative, mystery
Set in 1954 on the fictional San Piedro Island, the narrative centers on the murder trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American fisherman accused of killing Carl Heine.
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8
The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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9
I Have Some Questions for You
narrative, mystery
Bodie Kane, a successful film scholar and podcaster, returns to Granby School, the New Hampshire boarding school where she spent four uncomfortable years.
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10
The Muse
narrative, mystery
In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian immigrant, begins working at the Skelton Institute under the enigmatic Marjorie Quick.
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11
Winter's Bone
narrative, mystery
Ree Dolly is a sixteen-year-old girl living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, taking care of her two younger brothers and her mentally ill mother.
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12
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
narrative, mystery
Set in the smog-laden streets of Victorian London, the story follows Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among a family of petty thieves and fences.
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