If I loved "Gilead" and "Home", what else will I like?

[CSLewis]

Inspired by the recent thread about beautiful reads, please recommend some other books you'll think I'd enjoy.

The Woman in White is another favourite of mine, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and P&P, and Persuasion... Not sure how they tie in with Marilynne Robinson! Maybe an underlying morality/humanity..?

If this is a Man by Primo Levi is on my new Wish List.

TIA

If it helps, Marilynne Robinson has a new book, using the same characters from Gilead and Home, but told from the young wife's perspective.

Have you ever read Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada? A cracking book, in my view, and one that definitely has an underlying humanity to it.

I haven't read Gilead yet but if I had to pick books that reminded me of Housekeeping I would say Unless by Carol Shields, We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. All three are beautifully written books about family.

Lila is the new one from Marilynne Robinson - it is beautiful. Have you read George Eliot's novels? Robinson reminds me more of her than anyone else.

For current writers, if you liked Gilead, I strongly recommend a writer called Cheryl Mendelson. Not sure if you can get her in the UK (and she is fairly low-key in the US to) but surely amazon could provide. She has written a trilogy of books

Morningside Heights
Anything for Jane
Love Work Children

They are each great (and stand alone) but the first and third are just brilliant. I am amazed she isn't better known. She writes about character, love, family, values in a really compelling interesting way.

Thank you everyone, there's a few there I can be getting on with

Watching with interest, Home & Housekeeping are two of the very few books I will always return to. My recommendation would be any by Irene Nemirovsky - although particularly Suite Francaise. For me she writes with a similarly beautiful but understated knowledge of human nature.

Interestingly, I didn't really love Housekeeping - though I read it after Gilead & Home, which were hard acts to follow. I found it a bit too...cool? Cold? I don't know - I should probably read it again.