If the way The Shore skips across decades and branches through interlinked stories—right up to that startling leap into a plague‑scarred future—captivated you, you’ll love how A Visit from the Goon Squad kaleidoscopes through time and characters. Egan’s vignettes click together the way the Shore’s generational pieces do, revealing hidden consequences and emotional whiplash as lives echo across years. It delivers the same electric feeling of puzzle‑pieces locking into place while still breaking your heart.

If you were drawn to how The Shore lets different relatives, neighbors, and descendants shape the truth of a family’s history, Commonwealth offers that same polyphonic electricity. Patchett follows a blended clan over decades, each voice reframing the past the way the Shore’s islanders do—turning small moments into fateful pivots and revealing how one generation’s choices ripple through the next.

If the raw, unsentimental edge of The Shore—its poverty, danger, and the way the coast itself feels like a threat—stuck with you, Salvage the Bones dives into that same intensity. Ward follows Esch and her brothers through the days leading to a catastrophic hurricane, capturing the same bruising tenderness and survival instinct you felt in the Shore’s harshest chapters, where resilience is forged in violence, kinship, and rising water.

If the sweeping reach of The Shore—tracking a lineage over centuries, from early island settlers to a future reshaped by catastrophe—moved you, Homegoing offers an equally powerful scope. Gyasi traces two branches of a family across continents and time, showing how trauma and love are inherited, refracted, and sometimes redeemed, much like the Shore’s family tree where each era uncovers a new, searing piece of the legacy.

If what gripped you in The Shore was the endurance and grit of its women—surviving abuse, protecting children, and stubbornly remaking their lives—The Poisonwood Bible centers that same strength. Told through the voices of the Price daughters and their mother, it charts how they resist and outgrow a destructive patriarch, echoing the Shore’s hard‑won agency and the way women anchor a family through upheaval.