Books like Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Imbolo Mbue

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

Cora, a woman enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation, partners with a new slave named Caesar to flee the South. Their daring escape follows a literal underground network of tunnels that mirrors the perilous journey of countless fugitive slaves toward freedom.

Americanah follows Ifemelu, a Nigerian student who moves to the United States for university, exploring her life and love across continents while reflecting on identity, immigration, and cultural belonging.

In the orderly suburb of Shaker Heights, a new family’s arrival and a custody dispute ignite tension, revealing secrets, art, and the complex pull of motherhood in a tightly knit community.

Homegoing is Yaa Gyasi’s debut historical novel that traces generations of an Asante family from 18th‑century Ghana to modern America, exploring the enduring impact of slavery and colonialism.

In pre‑World War II England, Charles Ryder falls under the spell of the Marquesses of Marchmain and their Catholic, aristocratic world, only to confront the gulf between his own life and their privileged past.

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.

Celestial and Roy, a young couple embodying the American Dream, are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted and sent to prison. Five years later, his conviction is overturned, forcing Celestial to confront the fractured life she must rebuild.

A contemporary family drama in which a mother‑child relationship is complicated by a companion chimpanzee, raising questions of identity, secrecy and moral responsibility.

In the eve of Britain’s World War II declaration, Harry Clifton escapes a family scandal by joining the Merchant Navy. When a U‑boat sinks his ship, he survives, encounters an American sailor, and assumes the dead man's identity to bury his past.

A son uncovers his family's hidden past as his grandfather’s deathbed confessions span a mail-order novelty business, World War II, and the space program.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

In Brooklyn, 18‑year‑old Deya faces an arranged marriage while discovering family secrets that connect her to her Palestinian heritage, revealing the struggles of Arab‑American women between tradition and personal choice.

When a young fisherman's daughter disappears from a Haitian coastal town, a web of hidden truths and family secrets begins to surface.

In mid‑life, Willa Knox faces a crumbling inherited home and a family in crisis, prompting her to uncover Vineland, New Jersey’s Utopian roots and a nineteenth‑century connection that may save them.

A bustling Chinese immigrant family’s fortune crashes, forcing them on a cross‑country road trip that tests their bonds and redefines what home means.

New York journalist Jaya confronts a personal tragedy and a family mystery, tracing the legacy of her pioneering grandmother through India and the past of colonial Britain.

A memoir of a Black woman's transformation from a Cornell student activist to a Buddhist monk and academic, tracing her spiritual evolution and teaching career in the United States.

A vibrant picture book that follows an immigrant mother and her son as they navigate life in a new country, celebrating Mexican heritage, family bonds, and the joys of learning English.

"It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.". "But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the counter-cultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties. These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They are bourgeois bohemians: Bobos." "Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we breathe. Their status codes govern social life, and their moral codes govern ethics and influence our politics. Bobos in Paradise is a witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age and a penetrating description of how we live now."--BOOK JACKET.

In a New York‑set family torn by an ancient curse, three Owens siblings must navigate their unique gifts while obeying strict rules that forbid love—yet love keeps pulling them back toward one another.