If you loved
Books like March
A haunting, beautifully written exploration of the moral compromises of war and the heavy cost of idealism. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with March.
- melancholic
- atmospheric
- haunting
- poignant
- 01
Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks · 2001
A haunting, beautifully rendered portrait of a community pushed to the brink and a woman forging her own salvation in the crucible of a plague.
- 02
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1996
A warm, fireside embrace of a story that celebrates the messy, beautiful, and bittersweet journey of growing up alongside those who know you best.
- 03
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
A sweeping, emotionally grueling portrait of a family unraveling in the beautiful but deadly isolation of the Alaskan wilderness.
- 04
The invention of wings
Sue Monk Kidd
A sweeping, deeply interior historical journey that traces the intertwined destinies of two women fighting for freedom against the suffocating constraints of the 19th-century South.
- 05
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier, Narrator · 1997
A sweeping, elegiac odyssey through a scarred landscape, driven by the quiet endurance of the human spirit.
- 06
American War
Omar El Akkad
A harrowing, dread-soaked descent into the anatomy of radicalization, set against the backdrop of a fractured, climate-ravaged America.
- 07
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
A brutal yet breathtakingly tender frontier epic where love and found family bloom amidst the carnage of 19th-century America.
- 08
Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
A quiet, aching portrait of a boy growing up on the home front while his family and country tear themselves apart.
- 09
The Blood of Flowers
Anita Amirrezvani
A sensuous and transporting journey of a young woman weaving her own destiny through art and resilience in seventeenth-century Persia.
- 10
The silence of the girls
Pat Barker
A gritty, unromanticized descent into the shadows of epic myth, giving voice to the women treated as spoils of war.
- 11
Once in every life
Kristin Hannah
A sweeping, time-bending romance about two wounded souls finding a second chance at life and love in the rugged Pacific Northwest.
- 12
Caleb's crossing
Geraldine Brooks
A contemplative historical journey of secret friendship and the yearning for knowledge across cultural divides.
