Books like Who are you ? by Anna Kavan

A contemporary day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a 1920s London politician’s wife, as she prepares for an evening party and is haunted by memories of youth, friendships, and past loves.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Zora Neale Hurston’s Pulitzer‑winning novel follows Janie Crawford’s journey of self‑discovery and empowerment, mapping her search for love, independence, and identity against the backdrop of the African‑American South during the early 20th century.

In *To the Lighthouse*, Virginia Woolf follows the Ramsay family as they spend a summer at their Scottish holiday home, exploring the depths of memory, longing, and the changing dynamics of adult relationships. The novel blends lyrical prose with a keen awareness of transience.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

Susannah Nelson, 50, returns to the garden she loved as a teenager, but the past she's trying to escape is still there, leading her to question everything about her life and relationships with her loved ones.

Nightwood traces the complex love affairs of Robin Vote as she moves through relationships with Felix Volkbein, Nora Flood, and Jenny Petherbridge, exploring erotic obsession and identity in a richly symbolic, New York Times–reviewed work of American fiction.

In the Lake of the Woods follows John and Kathy Wade as they grapple with political defeat, marital strain, and Kathy’s sudden disappearance on a Minnesota lake, prompting a desperate search and a haunted look at their hidden secrets.

A Charmed Circle follows a family confined to a country house near a 1920s industrial town, exploring repression, family conflict, and the struggle for self‑expression amid a sinister patriarch.

Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom and loneliness, marries into the closed Irish village of her childhood, where her children are not her own and her husband struggles with his police duties.

I am Lazarus is a collection of post‑war short stories by Anna Kavan, set in Blitz‑era London and reflecting her experiences working with invalided soldiers at a military neurosis centre.

Celina, driven by a desire to escape her wealthy father and seek independence, marries a man she meets, journeys to the Far East, becomes widowed, writes a successful career, and ultimately wrecks the lives of her daughter and sister‑in‑law.

Fabulously wealthy, internationally adored, the aristocratic Massot family owns one of the last great jewelry firms in Paris. But seven years have passed since the disappearance of the patriarch, Pierre Massot. With hope of his return all but extinguished, his beautiful young widow, Sophie, reluctantly declares her husband dead and takes control of the family business. But even as Sophie begins to look to the future, forces are conspiring to destroy the Massotsby unearthing the devastating secret from their past that Pierre may have died trying to protect. Bagshawes sweeping story takes readers from the murky diamond mines of Soviet Russia to the cultural whirl of modern-day Paris, unraveling the mystery of Pierre Massots fate and the scandal and deceit that lies behind the Massot family fortune. Spanning continents and decades, Louise Bagshawes Sparkles is an addictive tale of ambition, betrayal, and romance.

An engrossing thriller exploring the complexities of a marriage between a busy mother and a charming developer, set in London.

A deeply textured debut novel that combines the mood of a close-knit African-American community with the vitality of its inhabitants to tell a story of sorrow, joy, and unexpected family bonds set in South Philadelphia during the 1940s and 1950s.

When her former lover becomes a widower, Minty Lloyd becomes his second wife, navigating ridicule from friends and sons while haunted by her earlier mistress, Rose. A surprising phone call forces Minty to confront the past and seek unexpected reconciliation.