Books like Weathering by Lucy Wood

The beloved classic of American literature, Little Women, narrates the adventures of four March sisters as they grow up during the Civil War era.

At Pirriwee Public, a beachside school, a routine trivia night spirals into chaos when a parent dies—raising questions of murder, accidental death, or toxic truths. Parents discover how small lies can become deadly.

After a celebrated Seattle architect mysteriously disappears, her daughter Bee searches for her by piecing together emails, documents, and family secrets. The novel blends humor and heart as it explores a mother‑daughter bond in a quirky, modern world.

Beryl Markham's memoir chronicles her daring career as a pioneering woman aviator and lecturer in East Africa, blending biography, travel description, and reflections on aerial exploration.

A quartet of intimate stories about family bonds and personal reconciliation, showing how ordinary choices shape destinies in the everyday lives of sisters, a school janitor, a stranger on the street, and a long‑absent daughter.

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.

Two newcomers—an older man and a boy—arrive in a new land, learn Spanish, and are assigned new names. They navigate a desert camp, a relocation center, and the city of Novilla while the man searches for the boy’s mother, all amid themes of immigration, family, and fate.

After a decade away, Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney’s Outrun sheep farm to confront her past and embark on recovery, finding solace in cold sea swims, wildlife observations, and evening stargazing.

After his death, Marcus Conway, a rural Irish engineer, returns to his family home on All Souls Day, and his story unfolds in a single, relentless sentence that weaves together local life, family ties, and global events.

A journey through ancient paths, filled with natural history, literature, and the stories of those who walked them.

In Maine, a family of middle‑aged women confronts the cost of caregiving as Alzheimer’s disease takes hold, while the sandwich generation juggles work, parenting and lingering shadows of past choices.

Set on a chain of Chesapeake Bay islands, 'The Shore' follows generations of Virginia women, weaving stories of wealth, poverty, and identity across a community of outsiders and their enduring bonds.

In Anita Brookner’s *A Family Romance*, Jane Manning confronts the arrival of her glamorous aunt Dolly into her modest family circle, exposing the shifting attitudes toward identity, gender and family power.

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a collection of writings on the art and nature of poetry.". "The pieces have a broad range and many levels. In one, we sit with the teenage Mark Strand while he reads for the first time a poem that truly amazes him: "You, Andrew Marvell" by Archibald MacLeish, in which night sweeps in an unstoppable but exhilarating circle around the earth toward the speaker standing at noon. The essay goes on to explicate the poem, but it also evokes, through its form and content, the poem's meaning - time's circular passage - with the young Strand first happening upon the poem, the older Strand seeing into it differently, but still amazed." "Among the other subjects Strand explores: the relationship between photographs and poems, the eternal nature of the lyric, the contemporary use of old forms, four American views of Parnassus, and an alphabet of poetic influences."--BOOK JACKET.

Before and After follows a New England family whose peaceful life is shattered when the son is suspected of murdering a teenage girl, forcing each member to confront hidden motives, secret anger, and community judgment.

An African‑American woman inherits a sugarcane farm in rural Louisiana and moves with her eleven‑year‑old daughter from Los Angeles to start anew, confronting family tensions, agricultural challenges, and the legacy of the South.