Books like The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne De Courcy

Betty Friedan’s 1963 classic uncovers the invisible barriers that kept women confined to domestic roles, sparking a cultural awakening that reshaped ideas about equality and personal fulfillment in the United States.

Four women from distinct backgrounds rent a medieval Italian castle for the month of April, where friendship and renewal replace disappointment.

The Woman Warrior is Maxine Hong Kingston’s lyrical memoir of her Chinese‑American upbringing in California, juxtaposing her mother’s folk tales of fierce women with the everyday sexism she faces.

Elizabeth and Mary is a dual biography of England’s Elizabeth I and Scotland’s Mary, Queen of Scots, exploring their rivalry, political strategies, and personal dynamics as sisters‑in‑law and rivals for the English throne.

A concise historical exploration of Mary Boleyn, the lesser-known sister of Anne, set within the Tudor court of 1508–1543.

Juliet Nicolson traces the hidden histories of seven generations of women, unraveling family myths and secrets across Europe and America while exploring how past patterns shape her own life.

A memoir of Afghan life, chronicling the author’s childhood, escapes, and joys in a country whose history has woven deeply into global events.

The Lost follows Daniel Mendelsohn as he seeks the truth about six missing family members from the Holocaust, tracing clues across four continents and a small Ukrainian town to confront memory, history, and the enduring impact of loss.

Rafia Zakaria’s memoir follows her family's migration to Karachi, interweaving the city’s social and religious upheavals with the personal tragedy of her aunt, who endures a painful second marriage amid Pakistan’s Islamization era.

The Girls of Atomic City chronicles the lives of the women who worked in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during WWII, revealing how their quiet labor helped enrich uranium for the Manhattan Project and shaped the town’s history.

"In The Long Weekend, acclaimed historian Adrian Tinniswood tells the story of the rise and fall of the English aristocracy through the rise and fall of the great country house. Historically, these massive houses had served as the administrative and social hubs of their communities, but the fallout from World War I had wrought seismic changes on the demographics of the English countryside. In addition to the vast loss of life among the landed class, those staffers who returned to the country estates from the European theater were often horribly maimed, or eager to pursue a life beyond their employers' grounds. New and old estateholders alike clung ever more desperately to the traditions of country living, even as the means to maintain them slipped away"-- "Drawing on thousands of memoirs, unpublished letters and diaries, and the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, historian Adrian Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life as never before, opening the door onto a world half-remembered, glamorous, shameful at times, and forever wrapped in myth. The Long Weekend revels in the sheer variety of country house life: from King George V poring over his stamp collection at Sandringham to fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley collecting mistresses at ancestral homes across the nation, from Edward VIII entertaining Wallis Simpson at Fort Belvedere to the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim, whose wife became obsessed with her pet spaniels. Tinniswood reveals what it was really like to live and work in some of the most beautiful houses the world has ever seen during the last great golden age of the English country home"--