Books like Year of Wonders
12 books with a reading profile close to Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
The Murmur of Bees
narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the narrative follows the Morales family in northern Mexico.
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2
The Red Garden
narrative, literary
Blackwell, Massachusetts, is a small town in the Berkshires founded in the 1750s by settlers who endure a brutal first winter.
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3
The Pull of the Stars
narrative, literary
The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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4
Animal Dreams
narrative, literary
Codi Noline returns to her rural Arizona hometown to care for her father, a doctor descending into Alzheimer’s disease.
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5
People of the Book
narrative, literary
Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book conservator, travels to Sarajevo in 1996 to restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, a fourteenth-century Hebrew manuscript.
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6
Honor
narrative, literary
Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.
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7
The Unseen World
by Liz Moore
narrative, literary
Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.
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8
News of the World
narrative, literary
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels across North Texas, reading international newspapers to paying audiences in small towns.
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9
One Two Three
narrative, literary
In the small town of Bourne, the Mitchell triplets—Mab, Monday, and Mirabel—navigate lives shaped by a legacy of environmental poisoning.
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10
The Seed Keeper
by Diane Wilson
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Rosalie Iron Wing grows up learning the traditional Dakhóta methods of gathering and preserving seeds from her father in the woods of Minnesota.
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11
Run
by Ann Patchett
narrative, literary
Bernard Doyle, a former Boston mayor, has raised his sons Tip and Teddy, who are Black and were adopted, along with his biological son Doyle.
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12
The Samurai's Garden
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
Stephen, a young Chinese man who has been ill, goes in 1937 to his family's summer house in Tarumi, a Japanese seaside village, to recover.
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