Books like Theo of Golden
An elderly stranger named Theo arrives in the town of Golden, buys the pencil portraits of local people hanging in a coffee shop and gives each one to its subject, and his quiet encounters change a whole community.
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A Man Called Ove
A curmudgeonly old widower whose only joy is enforcing neighbourhood rules is slowly redeemed by the immigrant family that moves in next door.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova Sullivan, a widow who mops floors at a small Puget Sound aquarium at night, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus who knows more about her past than she does.
The Shack
Years after his youngest daughter was abducted on a family camping trip, with evidence that she was murdered in an abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness, Mack Phillips finds a note in his mailbox, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Wonder
August Pullman, a ten-year-old boy born with a severe facial difference, has always been taught at home, and when he starts fifth grade at a private school in Manhattan, he has to convince his classmates that he is an ordinary kid.
Where the Heart Is
Novalee Nation, seventeen and seven months pregnant, is left by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, and secretly makes the store her home.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Eddie, an eighty-three-year-old maintenance man at a seaside amusement park, dies trying to save a little girl from a falling cart, and wakes in an afterlife where five people from his life, some of them strangers, explain what it meant.
The Correspondent
Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer in her seventies who is losing her sight, has written letters all her life, to her brother, her friends, authors she admires and people she disagrees with, and through them an old grief comes to the surface.
All Adults Here
Astrid Strick, a widow in a small Hudson Valley town, sees an acquaintance killed by a school bus, and decides it is time to tell her grown children something she has kept from them.
Tell Me Everything
In Crosby, Maine, the lawyer Bob Burgess takes on the case of a lonely man suspected of killing his mother, while his friend, the writer Lucy Barton, visits the elderly Olive Kitteridge, who has stories she wants to tell.
The Rainbow Troops
On a tin-mining island in Indonesia, ten poor children and two devoted teachers keep a crumbling Muslim village school alive against the threat of closure.
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
Cinnamon Gardens, a nursing home in western Sydney run by a Sri Lankan Tamil family, becomes the target of a local culture war, and the residents' memories of their own war come back.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.