Books like Floodtide by Frank Yerby

1818 novel by Mary Shelley about young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox experiment.

Tom Ripley is hired to travel to Italy and persuade a wayward son to return home, but he becomes obsessed with taking the boy’s life, identity and wealth.

A sweeping portrait of post‑Founders’ Day South Africa, Cry, the Beloved Country follows Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom as they confront racial injustice and the harsh realities of white‑dominated law.

Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old black youth in poverty on Chicago's South Side, becomes embroiled in a brutal murder and must face the consequences of his violent actions in Richard Wright's novel 'Native Son' (1940).

A gripping tale of passion, deception, and the dangers of the Cold War in Afghanistan.

An unsentimental yet uplifting story of marriage and young love set in poverty and hardship, Joy in the Morning is a timeless novel about the strength of a loving, loyal relationship.

During WWII, RAF flying officer Jerry Chambers and barmaid Mona Stevens navigate love and danger in wartime England, united by loyalty and unexpected courage.

Maggie Delamere, a celebrated playwright, must reignite her creativity while resisting the charms of Viscount Marwood, whose invitation to his country estate threatens to blur the lines between scandal and affection.

In turn‑of‑the‑century Indiana, idealistic naturalist David Langston harvests medicinal herbs while longing for the ‘Dream Girl’. When Ruth Jameson enters his life, he pursues her with unwavering idealism and self‑less devotion.

Tilly Trotter rises from a modest cottage on the Sopwith estate, confronting witchcraft accusations and personal doubts, to realize a prophecy of her own empowerment in early Victorian England.

Thornton Wilder’s The Eighth Day follows the aftermath of a murder in a small Illinois mining town, exploring family bonds, justice, and redemption as an accused killer escapes and the surviving relatives confront a new reality.

An illegitimate English noble’s son, Phillipe Charboneau, moves to America, assumes the name Philip Kent, and becomes a front‑line participant in the revolutionary struggle that shapes the nation’s destiny.

"We were as brothers," Sherman said, describing his relationship to Grant, a friendship forged on the battlefield. They were prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, who held four different jobs during the four years before the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled to join the war effort. And taking each other's measure at the Battle of Shiloh, ten months into the war, they began their unique collaboration. They shared the demands of family life and the heartache of loss, including the death of Sherman's favorite son. They supported each other in the face of criticism by press and politicians. Their growing mutual admiration and trust, which President Lincoln increasingly relied upon, would set the stage for the crucial final year of the war.--From publisher description.

A U.S. minesweeper mutiny during World War II unravels in a tense court‑martial, exploring authority, loyalty, and moral ambiguity.

Set amid the Civil War, Lorena Selby must protect her family's plantation while a forbidden romance with a Union soldier threatens her loyalty.