Ann Hood Books in Order

This debut follows three women who came of age together in the 1960s and are still shaped by old loves, losses, and disappointments. Hood keeps the focus on friendship, memory, and the messy pull of the past.

After Alexander Porter is killed by a freak lightning strike, his family breaks apart in different directions. Told from several points of view, the novel follows grief's strange aftermath, especially for Alex's young son, who has gone silent.

Abby plays violin in a folk trio and tries to hold together an unstable marriage to her drifting artist husband. As music, motherhood, and disappointment collide, she has to face how much of her life has been lived waiting for him.

Lucy, Julia, and Katherine are young women in New York trying to make sense of work, love, and the lives they thought they wanted. Over one unsettled year, friendship is tested as each of them inches toward a different kind of adulthood.

Libby Harper walks away from her husband, children, and small-town Massachusetts life to chase a different future. Back home, her family reels, and an old classmate returning with a terminally ill daughter changes the shape of their loss.

Josie's carefully managed life starts to fray after a random attack, her father's decline, and the return of her estranged sister Michaela. Set against family history and old loyalties, the novel asks what holds a life together when everything shifts.

This practical craft guide helps fiction writers move beyond naming feelings and learn how to dramatize them on the page. Hood uses examples and short lessons to show how emotion can shape scenes, character arcs, and reader investment.

Widowed Olivia discovers a pregnant runaway teen living in the Rhode Island beach house she once meant to share with her husband. Their uneasy arrangement grows into a complicated bond, shaped by grief, need, and the question of what comes next.

When her father is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, Hood goes searching for a miracle. This memoir follows that desperate quest through family history, faith, and the hard gap between hope and what medicine can promise.

These eleven stories follow people dealing with heartbreak, family strain, addiction, desire, and sudden flashes of recognition. Hood stays close to ordinary lives and the small turns that reveal how fragile, and stubborn, people can be.

Mary Baxter, shattered by the death of her young daughter, joins a Providence knitting group almost by accident. As the women share patterns and losses, Mary begins to speak her own grief and imagine a way back to living.

After the sudden death of her five-year-old daughter, Hood writes plainly and fiercely about grief, numbness, and the slow return of hope. It is a memoir about surviving the unimaginable without pretending the pain neatly disappears.

Twelve-year-old Madeline believes she performed a miracle when her father survives an avalanche, but his survival does not save the family. As divorce and upheaval follow, she has to rethink faith, blame, and what fixing a life really means.

In this short historical tale, war-scarred Carmine Rimaldi is shaken by a brief encounter with a young Russian widow at Coney Island. Hood uses the meeting to explore longing, memory, and the ways a single moment can linger for years.

A group of Americans come together through a Providence adoption agency as they wait to adopt daughters from China. Hood pairs their hopes with the stories of Chinese mothers making impossible choices, building a novel about grief, fate, and family.

As the twins settle into Elm Medona, the Treasure Chest sends them to St. Croix in 1772 to shadow young Alexander Hamilton. The trip also pulls them deeper into the Pickworth family's missing people and stolen treasures.

In the first Treasure Chest adventure, Felix and Maisie are whisked from Elm Medona to a Massachusetts farm in 1836. Meeting young Clara Barton is only the start of learning that the strange chest has plans for them.

With Great-Uncle Thorne newly arrived at Elm Medona, the twins tumble into 1894 and cross paths with Harry Houdini on Coney Island. The stage magic is fun, but the bigger draw is how the Pickworth family mystery deepens.

Felix tries to take his classmate Lily back to China so she can see where she was born, but the Treasure Chest has other plans. Soon the twins are near the Yangtze River, meeting young Pearl Buck as danger closes in.

In Victorian Britain, Maisie and Felix meet young Alexander Graham Bell and get separated in the chaos of London. Orange-selling, chimney-sweeping, and the twins' own worries about Elm Medona make this one especially busy and vivid.

Felix and Maisie reenter the Treasure Chest and find themselves in a Lakota village, where they meet the young man who will become Crazy Horse. Vision quests, conflict, and split-second choices give this installment a sharper edge.

Hood edits a wide-ranging anthology of essays about knitting and the lives wrapped around it. Writers reflect on loss, memory, obsession, and comfort, showing how a craft can become both story and shelter.

While visiting their father in New York, the twins stumble into another Treasure Chest journey, this time to nineteenth-century Hawaii. There they meet Lydia, the future Queen Liliuokalani, while their own family tensions keep tugging at the present.

On the day of JFK's inauguration, Claire wrestles with a loveless marriage and an uncertain future. Her story intertwines with Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer in 1919 California who is still searching for the lover she lost in the 1906 earthquake.

Separated from the others on a mission through the Treasure Chest, Maisie and Felix land in early twentieth-century Kansas and meet young Amelia Earhart. Their latest jump mixes danger, time travel, and a close-up look at a future aviation pioneer.

Built from linked stories, this novel follows the Rimaldi family across a century of Italian and Italian American life. Love, duty, migration, secrecy, and survival pass from one generation to the next, with Josephine Rimaldi at the center.

In the final Treasure Chest adventure, Maisie and Felix are swept into early twentieth-century Russia and meet the Romanov family. The series ends with one more historical mystery, plenty of time-travel tension, and a last look at the twins' unfolding family story.

Maisie and Felix travel to fifteenth-century Italy, where the Treasure Chest brings them face to face with a young Leonardo da Vinci. As always, the adventure mixes family mystery with a brisk introduction to a major historical figure.

This follow-up anthology gathers writers reflecting on knitting as solace, habit, art, and connection. The essays are thoughtful, funny, and often shaped by grief, family, and the small rituals that help people keep going.

After her marriage falls apart, Ava joins a book group for company and rediscovers the childhood novel that once steadied her. Her search for that lost book opens old family secrets and collides with her daughter Maggie's troubled life in Paris.

Hood traces her girlhood in a Rhode Island mill town through the books that formed her, startled her, and widened her world. It is a memoir about reading, longing, and how literature can quietly change a life.

In 27 warm essays, Hood links meals, recipes, and kitchen stories to family, grief, love, and second chances. It is part food memoir, part personal history, and full of the dishes that shaped her life.

In 1966 Rhode Island, Beatles-obsessed Trudy Mixer is losing friends, social standing, and any real connection with her father. Sneaking off to see the band in Boston feels like the answer, until the trip turns into a bigger lesson about growing up.

Twelve-year-old Jude is trying to live with the sudden death of his beloved sister, Katie, and the guilt he feels over it. A new friend who understands loss helps him imagine that healing, however messy, might still be possible.

Hood looks back on her years as a TWA flight attendant in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when flying still felt glamorous and volatile. Alongside wild passengers and far-flung layovers, she charts the work, pressure, and freedom that eventually led her to writing.

Haunted by a choice he made as a young soldier in World War I, Nick Burns asks a restless college dropout named Jenny to help him solve an old mystery. Their trip through France and Italy turns into a reckoning with regret, art, and forgiveness.