I'm looking for a stellar book recommendation: a novel, dealing with themes of home, exile, wandering, etc. What do you recommend?

If you like fantasy, I would definitely recommend Mists of Avalon & the rest of the Avalon books by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Arthurian Legend and Pagan history from a different perspective. Lots of finding self, wandering, finding home, etc.

Books I loved: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Linnet Bird by Linda Holeman.

Try the Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, it has all those themes and more!

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