Books like In Her Sister's Shadow by Diana Dubois

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

Twin African American sisters flee their hometown after their father's murder—one chooses to pass as white while the other stays true to her identity, exploring race, family, and the complexities of self through generations.

A tale of rivalry and self‑discovery as Denne Drake wrestles with the allure of her older sister Alicia and the quest to win the man she loves.

Inside the lives of Jackie Kennedy, her sister Lee, and their mother Janet Bouvier, this biography reveals how ambition, beauty, and politics intertwined in their family’s legacy.

A revealing look at the close, complex bond between Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her son John F. Kennedy Jr., exploring how their relationship shaped each other amid family politics, personal struggles, and public scrutiny.

This book tells the untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma. For almost six decades, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has fascinated people worldwide. She has been the subject of numerous books and thousands of articles, and her life has been chronicled in millions of words. And yet there has always remained something mysterious, something private about this very public woman. With extraordinary skill and great sensitivity, Barbara Leaming's biography explores the seemingly magical world of Jackie's youth, her fairy-tale marriage to a wealthy and handsome Senator and Presidential candidate, and her astonishing transformation into a deft political wife and unique First Lady. This spirited young woman's rejection of the idea of a "safe marriage" as the wife of some socially prominent but utterly predictable man led her to JFK and, in time, international fame. But the trauma of her husband's murder, which left her literally soaked in blood and brains, would damage her far more than has been known. Until now. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story is the first book to document Jackie's brutal, lonely, and valiant thirty-one-year struggle with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here is the woman as she has never been seen before. In heartrending detail, Leaming writes of a struggle that unfolded at times before our own eyes, but which we failed to understand. While the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has been examined and scrutinized countless times, it is only now that we can truly understand the woman behind the facade, the untold story of this iconic woman. - Jacket flap.

Wayne Koestenbaum’s nonfiction study examines how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis reshaped ideas of identity and style, analyzing her iconic images and mythic presence in American culture.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: America's Queen

A first‑time thriller that spins a tense love triangle, in which a mother’s obsessive bid to keep her son with her threatens the life of the woman he loves.