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A sweeping, bittersweet family saga that asks whether knowing the date of your death frees you to live or dooms you to fear. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Immortalists.
- haunting
- bittersweet
- atmospheric
- fatalistic
- 01
The book of speculation
Erika Swyler
A wondrous, atmospheric dive into crumbling coastal homes, traveling carnivals, and the haunting power of antiquarian books.
- 02
The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara
A chilling, humid descent into the darkest corners of scientific arrogance and human depravity, disguised as an academic memoir.
- 03
The tiger's wife
Téa Obreht
A haunting tapestry of war, memory, and myth that explores how the stories we tell help us survive the unbearable.
- 04
Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore
A bittersweet, decade-hopping puzzle that explores the beauty and heartbreak of living life entirely out of sequence.
- 05
How to stop time
Matt Haig
A bittersweet, time-hopping meditation on the courage it takes to stop hiding from the past and finally risk living in the present.
- 06
How much of these hills is gold
C Pam Zhang
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.
- 07
Anything is possible
Elizabeth Strout
A masterclass in empathy that quietly unravels the tangled, painful, and beautiful threads of small-town lives.
- 08
The Summer of Impossible Things
Rowan Coleman
A poignant, magical exploration of grief, sisterhood, and the ultimate sacrifices we make for the ones we love.
- 09
All adults here
Emma Straub
A warm, wry exploration of the messy reality that no one ever really figures out how to be a grown-up.
- 10
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
A tender, intricately woven puzzle box of a novel about the ways we survive profound loss through the stories we tell.
- 11
The leavers
Lisa Ko
A poignant, cross-cultural exploration of identity, loss, and the enduring, complicated ties between a mother and her son.
- 12
The Age of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker
A quiet, aching portrait of adolescence unfolding against the backdrop of a slow-motion apocalypse.
