Books like Twelve Across by Barbara Delinsky

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

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.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Jeannette Walls' memoir chronicles her turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional, itinerant family, detailing poverty, alcoholism, and homelessness across the United States as she seeks stability and personal growth.

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 devoted dog reflects on life, love, and racing while watching his owner, a race car driver, navigate family trials and professional ambition.

The Orphan Master's Son follows a man's journey through propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea.

Maggie Concannon, gifted Irish glass designer, lives in seclusion with her late father’s memories and her sister. A visionary gallery owner invites her to international markets, sparking a passionate, career‑driven romance set against the windswept hills of County Clare.

Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel follows Ricardo, a wandering expatriate who falls in love with the elusive and ever‑changing bad girl, confronting love, identity, and the blurred line between truth and illusion across continents.

A teenage romance that sparks when a girl and a boy, both adrenaline‑hungry and very different, meet on the racing circuit.

Alain de Botton examines romance with wit and insight, exploring the highs and lows of falling in love and the intellectual puzzles it raises.

In the lawless town of Simple, Texas, cowboy Ace Parker clashes with new teacher Petunia Wayfield as they battle their desires and the town’s vices, culminating in dangerous stakes that threaten both their futures.

An engineer discovers he is a prince and finds love in the unlikely hands of his administrative assistant, blending duty, royalty, and romance in a modern fairy tale.

Catherine Vernon, a powerful banker who has watched a love burn in her youth, faces resistance from her sharp‑witted relative Hester and her favored young man Edward in the heat of conflict between generations.

Cassie Hobbes has been working with the FBI since she was a teenager. Now twenty-three years old, she and her fellow Naturals have taken over running the program that taught them everything they know. As a unit, they're responsible for identifying new Naturals--and solving particularly impossible cases. When their latest case brings back a ghost from their past, Cassie and the other Naturals find themselves racing against the clock--and reliving their own childhood traumas.In a small, coastal town in Maine, there has been a rash of teen suicides--or at least, that's what the police believe. Mackenzie McBride, age twelve, thinks differently. Desperate to make herself heard, she stands at the top of a lighthouse, threatening to jump... unless the FBI agents who rescued her from a kidnapper at age six come to hear her out.Enter the Naturals. It doesn't take Cassie long to realize that Mackenzie isn't bluffing: she truly is convinced that the suicides are murder, and she really will jump if she can't get the FBI to believe her. To the outside world, Mackenzie is nothing more than a traumatized child. But so was Cassie, once upon a time. So were Michael, Dean, Sloane, Lia, and Celine. With a storm rolling in off the ocean and Mackenzie's position becoming more precarious by the moment, the Naturals have very little time to get to the truth about the deaths--and about twelve-year-old Mackenzie McBride.

Madison Tyler, a multimillion‑dollar multimedia mogul, ends a casual affair with Granville Washington, only to have him refuse to let her go and will stop at nothing to prove he's the perfect match.

A scenic summer outpost transforms when people arrive at Rainshadow Lodge, sparking unexpected romances among mismatched guests and staff.

In a seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood, the Maxwell and Pope families' close friendship is shattered by a one‑moment event that forever changes their lives.

Four lifelong friends in Sonoma reunite for a transformative summer, each confronting love, career, and health challenges as they navigate friendship, romance, and the possibility of happily ever after.