Books like Spectacular by Fiona Davis

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.

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.

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.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

Mandy Ashton fled a stifling frontier existence for the flittering social whirl of Sacramento City, California's state capital, trading childhood innocence for a woman's burning desire. Though it's risky to masquerade as her flighty cousin, Julia. Mandy is determined to give her cousin a chance at happiness with the man she loves. But Mandy is hardly faint of heart-proven time and again on a journey fraught with deadly adventure and sublime temptation. Travis Langley, know by his Indian name, Hawk, is a white man raised by the Cheyenne, a man trying to make peace with his dual heritage. The last thing he needs is a job chaperoning Julia Ashton, the California governor's spoiled daughter. But Mandy-posing as Julia- is spirited, captivating and irresistibly sensuous. By journey's end, Mandy and Hawk have become helpless prisoners of a smoldering passion that nothing can kill-except, perhaps, the secret Mandy has guarded so carefully throughout the arduous days and passionate nights of their long magnificent passage.

In the 1950s, a plain secretary discovers a hidden side of New York’s Barbizon Hotel for Women, while a modern journalist unravels the dark secrets of its past, forcing both women to confront truths that change their lives.

In 1884, a London housekeeper’s chance meeting with New York architect Theodore Camden launches her imagination; a century later, his granddaughter’s renovation plans uncover dark secrets that reshape their lives.

Set in 1928 and again in 1974, "The Masterpiece" follows two women—an aspiring artist and a resilient friend—whose lives are intertwined with the changing fortunes of New York’s Grand Central Terminal.