Books like Girl from the Train by Irma Joubert

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A young orphan girl from Canada makes her way to a Prince Edward Island farm and becomes a cherished member of a family there, all while proving she has a talent for making friends and learning languages.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

Anne Shirley: A Teacher's Inspiration in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Anne Shirley embarks on a new adventure as she leaves her old life in Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

Once follows Felix, a young Jewish orphan newly escaped from a Polish orphanage, as he navigates the dangers of Nazi‑occupied Poland to rescue his parents and survive the Holocaust.

A family‑centered tale exploring love, adoption, and Cherokee heritage amid Oklahoma’s rural life.

Silas Marner follows a recluse weaver who withdraws to Raveloe after a wrongful accusation, finding redemption and a second chance at life through the love of an abandoned child.

A powerful verse novel that tells, through real letters from Holocaust survivors, how a banned gift gives two Jewish teenage girls hope, friendship, and the strength to survive Auschwitz.

Fugitive Pieces traces the lives of three generations of men whose destinies are shaped by the Second World War, exploring how trauma, language, and memory intersect in the postwar era of Toronto.

A touching story of a young woman and her close-knit family life in a small Canadian village named Rainbow Valley, filled with adventures and warmth from close-knit siblings and neighbors.

An expatriate in New York grapples with the trauma of his parents’ resistance to the Holocaust, seeking meaning through Judaism and psychoanalysis in a haunting tale of memory and identity.

A Holocaust survivor’s harrowing recollection of being forced to serve as a Nazi mascot, then living in exile in Australia while hiding his identity, and his adult son’s quest to uncover the truth and reclaim his heritage.

A young Jewish woman survives a 1944 train transport to a Nazi death camp, is rescued and raised by those who risked their lives for her, and later finds peace within her own family.

Peter Liebig, a thirteen‑year‑old from Rolfen, West Germany, thinks life after World War II is peaceful until a hidden letter forces him to question his town, his parents and his identity.

Headstrong Journalist, Anna Rothman knows what suicide looks like - her own husband killed himself five years earlier. When Elly Swift, an agitated passenger beside her on a train, leaves a locket in Anna's bag before jumping onto the tracks, Anna starts asking awkward questions. But everything points to suicide and the police close the case. Anna, however, believes Elly's fears for Toby, her young nephew, missing since being snatched from St Stephen's church six months ago, fail to explain the true reason behind Elly's distress. Through a series of hidden messages Elly left behind, Anna embarks on a dangerous crusade to track down Toby and find Elly's killer. But nothing is as it seems and Anna opens a can of worms that throws into question even her own husband's suicide - before the threads of the mystery converge in an astonishing conclusion.