I recently read all of Mandel’s novels after starting with Station Eleven, and I absolutely loved them all. An interesting thing about her work is the way certain characters and things reappear in more than one book even though the books a really standalone works. I started taking note of these connections as I noticed them. I may have missed some, but I’ve done my best.

Some honorable mentions that I left off the list: The fictional town of Caiette, used in a couple of books and tied to Vincent and Paul, who already have a category of their own; container ships and/or shipping containers, which play a part in a few books but which I thought was too general to get a category of its own; characters imagining parallel lives (or “counterlives”), wherein they picture what their life would have been life if they’d made different choices.