A Visit From the Goon Squad (2011) is a sibling text to The Candy House and won Egan a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Reading it will provide extensive insight into many of the events and characters in The Candy House. It also explores many similar themes and uses a very similar, also unconventional structure.
Egan's novel The Keep (2006) explores some themes visited in The Candy House, including the nature of storytelling and the impact of technology on modern life and people. This Time Tomorrow (2022) by Emma Straub is a very contemporary novel that, like The Candy House, explores nostalgia, time, and perspective. Sea of Tranquility (2022) by Emily St. John Mandel and How High We Go in the...
