I love it when authors have characters who return in other books, sometimes as main characters in one, and minor ones in another. I am not talking about a series. Elizabeth Strout does this in the Olive (and other) books. So does Kent Haruf. Can you tell me about similar books?
by Vtjeannieb
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simon kernick does it, I like it too. michael connelly’s characters go back and forth between their own series.
Alan Furst’s Night Soldiers books are about spies in 1930s and 1940s Europe. Theres twelve or so books and only one book is a direct sequel. Theres often cameos from characters in other books, though. And anytime the characters are in Paris, they usually stop at the same location, the Brasserie Heninger, for oysters or steak frites with champagne. Someone always comments on the bullet holes in the bathroom from an event that happens in Furst’s first novel.
Wendell Berry does this, if you’re into agrarian literature.
The Silent Patient and Alex Michelade’s subsequent works.