Books by Geraldine Brooks
“Memorial Days’ reason for being, the centre point, is the sudden loss of the author’s husband, Tony Horwitz. He was on his own, on a book tour. And what a loss. This was a long marriage of two writers, such an important relationship. There wasn’t an illness, so there was no preparation. They were going about in the prime of their lives, and then this sudden loss.” Read more...
The Best Memoirs: The 2026 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist
Grace Talusan, Literary Scholar
March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
🏆 Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Geraldine Brooks' March tells the story of the father from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, who had left them to fight for the Unionist cause in the American Civil War. A lushly written work of historical fiction and a tragic love story. The LA Times described it as "a beautifully wrought story about how war dashes ideals, unhinges moral certainties and drives a wedge of bitter experience and unspeakable memories between husband and wife."
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
Although this is not a crime novel as crime novels go, it is a remarkable story about the Great Plague of London and holds the reader's attention as if a terrible crime has been committed and wondering what the outcome can be.
Interviews where books by Geraldine Brooks were recommended
Lynda La Plante recommends the best Crime Novels
The writer of the hugely successful Prime Suspect television series, Lynda La Plante, selects her own favourite crime novels. We haven’t completed the interview with her yet, but her brief email comments appear beside her choices.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels
Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a work of “distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” We’ve compiled a guide to the books that have won this prize since the turn of the millennium.
The Best Memoirs: The 2026 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist, recommended by Grace Talusan
We asked Grace Talusan—the critic, memoirist, and chair of the National Book Critics Circle autobiography committee—to talk us through their shortlist of the best new memoirs: from the “novelistic” winning book by Arundhati Roy to journalist Beth Macy’s hard-hitting examination of her struggling Ohio hometown.
The Best Biography & Memoir Audiobooks of 2025, recommended by AudioFile Editors
From in-depth accounts of the lives of literary giants to the ups and downs of an American frozen food dynasty, some notable biographies of 2025 have been turned into outstanding audiobooks. AudioFile magazine’s best audiobooks of the year also include heartfelt, bestselling memoirs—narrated by the authors themselves.
