Books like History of wolves by Emily Fridlund

After a catastrophic pandemic, former actress Kirsten Raymonde joins a traveling troupe that performs Shakespeare for scattered communities, only to confront a ruthless prophet in a desperate quest for survival.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Jeannette Walls' memoir chronicles her turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional, itinerant family, detailing poverty, alcoholism, and homelessness across the United States as she seeks stability and personal growth.

Jennifer Egan’s interlocking narratives weave the lives of Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker turned record executive, and Sasha, a restless young woman, across decades and continents, exploring music, memory and the fragile threads that bind us.

Twelve-year‑old Nao in Tokyo wrestles with loneliness and bullying and, before she ends it all, writes a diary about her great‑grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived a century. Across the Pacific a novelist on a remote island discovers objects from Nao’s life and is drawn into her mystery.

In the turbulent final years of the 1960s, a lonely teenager from Northern California is drawn into a charismatic cult, where her longing for acceptance and connection with an older, enigmatic girl brings her dangerously close to violence.

Set in a Southern California black community, The Mothers follows 17‑year‑old Nadia Turner as she navigates grief, a forbidden romance, and an unplanned pregnancy that shapes her and her friends' futures for years to come.

Jonathan Franzen’s *Purity: A Novel* explores layered family dynamics and adolescent identity against a backdrop of personal and governmental intrigue.

Twelve sharp, witty short stories by Lorrie Moore that dissect everyday human relationships and the quirks of social life.

In Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth, an uninvited encounter between Bert Cousins and Franny Keating’s family in Southern California sparks a chain reaction that ties two households together, revealing hidden family secrets and the enduring bonds of siblings across five decades.

Jende Jonga’s dream of a new life in New York turns into a struggle as his family faces the rigors of immigration law and the hidden dangers of working for a powerful executive.

Lila, a homeless woman rescued as a child, finds unexpected hope when she marries an Iowa minister and must reconcile her rugged past with the gentle faith of her new life.

"A family of four--mother, father and two boys--move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory, upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, Book Three gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence. "Of course, I remember nothing from this time. It is completely impossible to identify with the infant my parents photographed; this is in fact so difficult it almost seems wrong to use the word 'I' when referring to it, lying in the baby bath, for instance, its skin unnaturally red, its arms and legs sprawling, and its face distorted in a scream no one remembers the reason for anymore... Is that creature the same as the one sitting here in Malmo, writing this?" --from Book Three of My Struggle More praise for Book Three: "A superbly told childhood story... Knausgaard writes about everyday life as a child with a flow and continuity that all hangs together... the text has a gravitational pull that draws the reader in only further." --Dag Og Tid (Norway) "An aesthetic pleasure... A patient, chiseled, and intense portrayal of a child's sensory experience. Book Three is a classic." --Klassekampen (Norway) "Compelling reading... Knausgaard has an equally good eye for small and large events." --Aftenposten (Norway) "A gripping novel... This childhood portrayal drifts off with a lightness and sensitivity that not many will associate with him... There is no doubt that the series is worth following the author all the way." --Dagens Næringsliv (Norway) "The man can write a novel about a solid, pretty traditional upbringing too... A sensitive, sharp depiction of growing up in the 70's." --Adresseavisen (Norway)"-- "A portrait of the artist as a young boy. On the heels of Book One and Two of the internationally celebrated autobiographical novel series My Struggle, Book Three finds us in the sensuous realm of Karl Ove's childhood. A family of four -- mother, father, and two boys -- move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It's the early 1970s and the family's trajectory: upwardly mobile. The future seems limitless. We follow Karl Ove through bicycle expeditions, tense swim meets and locker rooms, girls, football pyromaniac pranks, and rock music in what seem like a traditional, if brutal, coming-of-age novel. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and singularity of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, Book Three gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence, all formed by the fear of his controlling, unpredictable, and omnipresent father"--

In 1920s Alaska, Jack and Mabel, striving to start a homestead, encounter a mysterious snow girl who disappears after the first snowfall, leaving behind faint tracks and a lingering sense of wonder.

See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781733W/Eleanor_Oliphant_Is_Completely_Fine