Books like Delicacy by David Foenkinos

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.

A philosophical novel set in a Parisian apartment building where an autodidact concierge and a teenage resident secretly discover each other's intellect, exploring class, friendship, and hidden genius.

180 p. ; 21 cm.1010L Lexile

Toni Morrison’s adult novel follows black fashion model Jadine Childs and fugitive lover, Son, as their love story weaves through the Caribbean, Manhattan and the deep South, confronting race, loyalty, ambition and crime.

In the dying moments of an odd‑job worker in a Bombay apartment block, memory and the drama of neighbors collide against a backdrop of Hindu mythology and everyday life.

In the spring of 1987, 17‑year‑old Stephen Shulevitz faces high school’s final months in rural Nova Scotia, falls in love with the wrong person, and must confront emotional devastation while preserving his humor and compassion to chart a path toward self‑acceptance and happiness.

After her husband George’s sudden death, Antoinette’s life is upended when a mysterious woman appears at his funeral, unveiling family secrets that threaten to unravel everything she thought she knew.

An elderly widow, Miranda Meadowe, invites her lifelong friends to share her country cottage. Their joyful reunion turns into a delicate dance of old wounds and new secrets when an ancient burial site draws outside attention.

A compelling romance that traces the unlikely bond between Elise Perez, a New Haven girl from public housing, and Jamey Hyde, a Yale junior heir, as they navigate class divides from New Haven to Manhattan.

In Brooklyn, widowed Celia Cassill guards the intimacy of her apartment building, but new tenant Hope’s arrival and a mysterious disappearance force her and the residents to confront love, loss, and the fragile boundaries between privacy and connection.

Louisa, widowed and grieving after losing her husband Harold and grandson Cody, chooses to pursue justice on her Indiana farm, confronting a corrupt sheriff, a dangerous monk son, and her own resilience.

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"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance. When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam has given us a lionhearted novel that reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival--a revelatory portrait of the human spirit"--