Books like Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

The Goldfinch chronicles the life of thirteen‑year‑old Theo Decker, who survives a museum attack that kills his mother and carries an art piece that becomes a lifelong obsession, exploring loss, identity, and art in contemporary America.

In 1935 England, a young woman’s allegation of a crime sets off a chain of events that devastates families, alters lives during the Second World War, and echoes into a later life of remorse and reflection.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A collection of short stories by George Saunders, featuring unforgettable characters and Saunders’s signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.

A whimsical collection of short stories where characters slip between tales, wandering through lost libraries, locked gardens, and a city of stopped clocks, all bound together by Helen Oyeyemi’s intricate prose and imaginative worldbuilding.

A collection of short stories focusing on characters grappling with personal crises and societal upheaval in the United States of America, including a failed poet, a clavichordist, and a college freshman discovering his past.

Alice Munro turns a quiet, long‑term marriage into a study of memory and love, following retired professor Grant as his wife Fiona gradually loses her memories and the couple confronts the fragile bonds that held them together.

A collection of short stories that explore human connection, love, sexuality, and family dynamics across varied settings.

Helen Simpson's "Getting a Life" is a collection of sharp, witty short stories that examine the quirks of manners and social customs in modern English domestic life.

Margaret Atwood's Moral Disorder and Other Stories explores the interconnected lives of characters from various generations, showcasing her storytelling gifts and personal insights.

A collection of short stories by Jay McInerney, spanning nearly three decades of his career, with a focus on the societal flux and the arc of his narrative.

Drawing on his own work and that of other cognitive, clinical, and neuroscientists, Schacter gives us overwhelming evidence for the thesis that we possess more than one memory system, which explains why some brain-damaged people cannot remember past events, and others cannot acquire new knowledge or call up old. He also shows us how new breakthroughs in brain imaging are allowing us to see, for the first time, the many parts of the brain that must interact to enable us to encode or retrieve a memory. Searching for Memory contains fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with striking - and sometimes bizarre - amnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma. Schacter also takes us into the hidden world of implicit memories - unconscious influences of the past that, outside our awareness, affect our judgments, preferences, and actions. And he examines the nature and accuracy of emotionally traumatic memories, using the latest advances in cognitive neuroscience to clarify vexing issues in the heated controversy over repressed memories of childhood trauma.

First short‑story collection by Aurelie Sheehan, featuring lyrical, often humorous portraits of women who challenge gender expectations, set amid American social norms.

Memory follows nineteen‑year‑old Jonny Dart as he grapples with guilt over his sister’s death, searches for a witness, and encounters a senile woman whose presence helps him face the past.