Books like Little House in the Big Woods

If you liked Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Little House on the Prairie

    Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1935 · Little House #3

    Because same series (Little House #3); also by Laura Ingalls Wilder; shares tags: children's classics, classics, pioneers.

    The Ingalls family leaves Wisconsin for Kansas, builds a log house, and faces wolves, fire, and fever.

  2. Tuck Everlasting

    Natalie Babbitt · 1975

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Winnie Foster meets the immortal Tuck family in the woods and must decide whether to drink from their spring.

  3. The Karamazov Brothers

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.

  4. Mansfield Park

    Jane Austen · 1814

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.

  5. Goodnight Moon

    Margaret Wise Brown · 1947

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.

  6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    Betty Smith · 1943

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift…

  7. A Light in the Attic

    Shel Silverstein · 1981

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.

  8. The Red Tent

    Anita Diamant · 1997

    Because shares tags: family, classics.

    Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.

  9. The Joy Luck Club

    Amy Tan · 1989

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.

  10. Pet Sematary

    Stephen King · 1983

    Because shares tags: family, classics.

    Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.

  11. The Metamorphosis

    Franz Kafka · 1915

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect, cannot go to work, and watches his family shift from shock to cold relief.

  12. The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck · 1939

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    The Joads lose their Oklahoma farm and drive to California for work that is not there.

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