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A fierce, dust-choked fable that reimagines the American West through the eyes of two orphaned siblings carrying the literal and figurative weight of their ancestry. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with How much of these hills is gold.
- dust-choked
- haunting
- desolate
- sun-baked
- 01
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
A razor-sharp, formally inventive satire that dismantles the background roles marginalized people are forced to play in their own lives.
- 02
The empress of salt and fortune
Nghi Vo
A quiet, lushly woven tapestry of memory and hidden rebellion, where the true history of an empire is told through the eyes of its forgotten women.
- 03
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Nghi Vo
A firelit, Scheherazade-esque tale of survival where the weapon of choice is a beautifully layered, fiercely debated myth.
- 04
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
A sweeping, deeply empathetic epic that traces the quiet sacrifices and enduring resilience of a family caught in the currents of history.
- 05
School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
A tense, witty, and deeply anxious exploration of the impossible standards of modern motherhood pushed to a dystopian extreme.
- 06
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
A razor-sharp, deeply vulnerable dissection of the dissonance between American optimism and the reality of marginalized existence.
- 07
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
A devastatingly beautiful, poetic excavation of the tender and violent intersections of love, trauma, and queer identity.
- 08
The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
A sweeping, bittersweet family saga that asks whether knowing the date of your death frees you to live or dooms you to fear.
- 09
The leavers
Lisa Ko
A poignant, cross-cultural exploration of identity, loss, and the enduring, complicated ties between a mother and her son.
- 10
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
A sweeping, deeply empathetic family saga about the heavy, echoing cost of the secrets we choose to live inside.
- 11
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
A darkly hilarious, blood-soaked frontier road trip that hides a surprisingly tender heart beneath its dusty exterior.
- 12
There There
Tommy Orange
A fiercely urgent chorus of voices hurtling toward a devastating and unforgettable convergence.
