Books like Vacant possession by Hilary Mantel

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.

Wolf Hall is a 2009 historical novel by Hilary Mantel that follows Thomas Cromwell’s rise in Henry VIII’s Tudor court from 1500 to 1535, earning the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A Booker Prize-winning tale of two young scholars uncovering a hidden web of letters, poems and romance between Victorian poets, blending intellectual mystery with a passionate love story.

Historical Fiction Novel by Hilary Mantel

Fourteen‑year‑old Mattie Ross sets out from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to hunt down Tom Chaney—whom she blames for her father’s death—guided by the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn.

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Through humor and honesty, a Mississauga girl’s journey of self‑acceptance explores weight, friendship, and the complexities of growing up.

A Place of Greater Safety follows the French Revolution through the intertwined lives of Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins, revealing how ambition, idealism, and ego catalyzed the era’s terror and eventual tragic ends.

Alison Hart, a London medium, battles the haunting souls of her past while navigating the dark underbelly of her city, revealing a sinister truth beneath her placid public persona.

Nature always wins as true love claims its untamed possession... "A superwoman of the eighties" is an apt description of Evelyn Scott. Quickly climbing the corporate ladder for a New York City oil firm, Evelyn is thrown a curve when her boss sends her on an executive enrichment program in Utah. Evelyn's insatiable drive for success is met by a much more powerful force--Michael Baylor--a man who controls the mystical boundaries of the wild outdoors that surround the Expanded Horizon experience--and grip Evelyn's very soul. Against the breathtaking expanse of wilderness in its purest form, Evelyn and Michael come to terms with the frailty of life and their need for each other! Sep-1983

Zal, a boy raised in an Iranian village and later adopted in New York, struggles with a peculiar childhood trauma and the desire to reclaim humanity.

Hilary Mantel’s sharp, darkly humorous short‑story collection delves into modern England, tackling gender, class, family, and society with penetrating insight and unexpected twists.

Carmel McBain is the only child of working-class Irish-Catholic parents. Her mother aspires to something more for her than what life in their depressed mill town has to offer. She is ambitious for her daughter, determined that she slip through England's rigid social barriers. And so, early on, she pushes Carmel, first to gain a scholarship to the local convent school, then to sit the exams for a place at London University. And Carmel does not disappoint. But success carries with it a fearful price. It sets her on a lonely journey that will take her as far as possible from where she began, uprooting her from the ties of class and place, of family and faith. Uprooting her ultimately from her own self. A coming-of-age novel, a memoir of a Catholic childhood, a piercing and witty look at social pretensions, a story of lost possibilities and girlhood betrayals: perhaps only a novelist of Hilary Mantel's enormous talents could have taken such material and shaped it into so fresh and arresting a tale.

Paul O'Rourke’s absurd quest to reclaim an online identity reveals the clash between his real life and a digital double, blurring humor and a profound meditation on meaning, loyalty and self-doubt.

When technician Ellery Pierce creates an artificial woman named Phyllis, the android rises from strip club to Hollywood star and ultimately to President of the United States, forcing him to confront the limits of creation.

A telepathic bodyguard protects a judge’s son from mob threats while helping the boy master his psychic powers—only to uncover a deeper danger tied to the family’s past.

A dissolute medical student finds favor with King Charles II and, amid the extravagant court life, is called upon to serve the monarch in a unique role.