March

Also set in the Civil War era, McBride reimagines a real historical figure with the same irreverence toward myth — funnier in tone but equally serious about race and conscience.

Like March, it centers silenced and suffering voices of the Civil War–era South, told with raw emotional honesty and a refusal to soften historical injustice.

Another Pulitzer winner built on narrative layers and an examination of who controls the historical record — rewards close reading the same way March does.

Expands a famous American family's story from a woman's marginalized point of view — the same revisionist impulse that drives March, but warmer and more expansive in tone.