Have you ever had that feeling when you’re 20-100 pages from the end of a book and you start reading slower because you don’t want the story to end? Because you don’t know what you’ll do with your life once the writer has left you?
Then this blog post is for you. Below, you’ll find books in sets based on story line, yes, but more so the feeling of the book. The Dog Stars, for instance, feels like it could be the same world as Station Eleven just much later in time (or further in the future, depending on how you look at it). The initial works had me laughing and crying and full of so much life or existential dread that I felt a little numb waking up to my own life. The companion works added a twinkling star to the black hole; I still felt lost but at least I had a light in the darkness. I hope they offer you the same respite.
If you read this…The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Read these… The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, The Archivist by Martha Cooley
If you read this… Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Read this… The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
If you read these… Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman, Read this… The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
If you read this… The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Read this… A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard
If you read…The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Read this… When She Woke by Hillary Jordan, Confessions of a Death Maiden by Ruth Francisco
If you read…The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Read these…A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass, Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine, The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
If you read…The Book Thief by Mark Zusak, Read this…All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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