If you liked Jack by Marilynne Robinson, you'll love...

Jack by American novelist Marilynne Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and was one of former U.S. president Barack Obama favourite books of 2020.

It is Robinson's fourth in the Gilead sequence, preceded by Gilead, Home and Lila. It focuses on John Ames "Jack" Boughton, the troubled son of Robert Boughton and explores truth and the nature of inequality. 

The Next Chapter columnist Donna Bailey Nurse has read Jack and says if you enjoyed that novel you should check out the Canadian novel Unless by the late American Canadian author Carol Shields.