Books like Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar

A sweeping Indian novel that weaves themes of love, family, and self‑realization, exploring gender identity, interpersonal bonds, and the human spirit amid loss and resilience.

Maya, an orphan from California, moves to her mother’s ranch in Wyoming after her grandmother’s stroke. There she learns to trust herself, grow with the herd, and discover a wild mare that once rode her mother.

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew follows a father‑less family in New England who, despite living in poverty, remain joyful and resilient; their lives are transformed when a prosperous gentleman becomes their benefactor.

In 1849 London, fourteen‑year‑old John Huffman faces his father's arrest and must navigate debt, family duty, and unexpected spies.

Teenage tomboy Charlie unexpectedly becomes a makeup model, thrusting her into a new social scene where flirtation and gender expectations challenge her single‑parent family and sibling relationships in California.

When thirteen‑year‑old Callie nurses a broken‑winged butterfly and delivers a baby lamb in 1901 rural Texas, her mother’s disapproval of her "unladylike" kindness sparks a quiet tale of family, nature, and growing up.

When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan’s mother forces her eleven‑year‑old daughter into domestic service; two years later, Lu Si‑yan seeks to return home to her mother and brother in 1930s China.

A compelling collection of poems by Adrienne Rich that explores themes of war, oppression, future, death, mystery, love and the transformative power of language.

Serial reflections by Jhumpa Lahiri on learning a new language and living abroad, written directly in Italian and exploring the quiet distance of desire.

In a Bangladeshi village, ten‑year‑old Naimi must disguise herself as a boy to help her family earn money through her talent for painting alpanas.

A poignant debut novel about Imelda, her brother Augustine, and their son Em, a vibrant woman whose bipolar disorder shapes and challenges their tight-knit family in contemporary India.

At the eve of World II, two young girls mistaken for one another at a grand English estate become unexpectedly entwined in romance and intrigue.

After a heartbreaking loss, Paige Hancock begins her junior year determined to reclaim her life, hoping her long‑time crush Ryan Chase overcomes his own struggles and helps her move forward.

"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance. When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam has given us a lionhearted novel that reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival--a revelatory portrait of the human spirit"--