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Geraldine Brooks


Australia (b.1955)

Geraldine Brooks was born and raised in Australia. After moving to the USA she worked for eleven years on the Wall Street Journal, covering stories from some of the world's most troubled areas, including Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, was set during the English plague year of 1666, and became an international bestseller. She lives with her husband and son in rural Virginia and is currently a fellow at Harvard University.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
Novels
   Year of Wonders (2001)
   March (2005)
   People of the Book (2008)
   Caleb's Crossing (2011)
   The Secret Chord (2015)
   Horse (2022)
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Geraldine Brooks recommends
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Leaving (2024)
Roxana Robinson
"What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price? Leaving is a searing interrogation of honor and passion. It dissects the hidden cost of the choices we make, and the consequences with which we must endeavor to live."
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The Last of What I Am (2023)
Abigail Cutter
"What really haunts us--our own mistakes, or the weight of history? Based closely on the true story of her own uncanny encounters in an inherited antebellum Virginia farmhouse and old letters she found there, Abbie Cutter has crafted a novel that plumbs the painful history of a common soldier in the Civil War and the burdens he cannot set down. A riveting read, rich in historic detail and moral complexity."
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Mobility (2023)
Lydia Kiesling
"State Department brat Bunny Glenn, Mobility's hapless, sometimes feckless, protagonist, likes her lip gloss and her Louboutins, and isn't likely to let vaguely leftish views stand between her and her rise in the oil industry. But this sly bildungsroman has subterranean intent. A masterpiece of misdirection and a cautionary tale for our times."

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Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2006) : March
The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year Best Book nominee (2006) : March


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