Books like Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood

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.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

Stephen Dedalus’s coming‑of‑age journey in Dublin frames his transformation from bullied youth to aspiring artist, as he distances himself from conventional life.

Three years after being disappointed by her friend, Lynn Danfort finds herself heartbroken when Ryder reappears in her life.

A single mother's ten-year-old son's quest for friendship leads to unexpected complications with the widower next door.

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Two romantic suspense novels about love, ranching, and the Texas countryside.

Maureen Corrigan, NPR book critic and lifelong reader, turns her decades-long love affair with books into a memoir that chronicles her Queens roots, Ivy‑League years, marriage, motherhood, and the literary works that shaped her life.

"The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- "The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't." Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece may be one of the most popular novels in America, many of us first read it when we were too young to fully comprehend its power. Offering a fresh perspective on what makes Gatsby great-and utterly unusual-So We Read On takes us into archives, high school classrooms, and even out onto the Long Island Sound to explore the novel's hidden depths, a journey whose revelations include Gatsby's surprising debt to hard-boiled crime fiction, its rocky path to recognition as a "classic," and its profound commentaries on the national themes of race, class, and gender. With rigor, wit, and infectious enthusiasm, Corrigan inspires us to re-experience the greatness of Gatsby and cuts to the heart of why we are, as a culture, "borne back ceaselessly" into its thrall. Along the way, she spins a new and fascinating story of her own"-- Provided by publisher.

Frieda, a 35‑year‑old grieving widow and single mother, seeks love for herself and her son while navigating family advice, unexpected romance, and the quest for a "perfect" partner.

Kate, a newly widowed mother, returns to Lost Lake in Georgia—a sleepy summer resort—to heal with her eccentric daughter Devin, hoping the place’s forgotten magic and their shared past can revive the cottage community and their hearts.

Set in 1942 Hong Kong, *The Piano Teacher* follows the forbidden love of Englishman Will Truesdale and Eurasianness Trudy Liang amid war. Decades later, teacher Claire Pendleton’s affair with Will forces her to confront a violent past and the cost of survival.

"Well," I said, "the guys and me decided that we are sick of doing chores, so we are going to run away to the clubhouse for the whole summer." "Really?" Dad said. "Is that the plan then?" I said, "Yes, that is the plan." Over the summer, Tommy and the rest of the boys in his club make friends with William, who uses a wheelchair, compete in field day contests at the park, and enlist the whole town's support in raising money to buy a wheelchair for a poor boy in Kenya who has polio. - Publisher.

Elin Hilderbrand’s *Troubles in Paradise* is a contemporary romance that explores family secrets, motherhood, and widowed lives against the warm backdrop of the Virgin Islands.

Olivia befriends the Donahue daughter and discovers a mysterious ‘Sentry’ haunting 16 Olcott Place, threatening the new family and unearthing a dark town history.