Books like Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera

The Kite Runner follows an unlikely friendship between a privileged boy and the son of his father’s servant amid Afghanistan’s turbulent history, exploring betrayal, redemption, and the father‑son bond.

A sweeping tale of two Afghan women—Mariam and Laila—whose intertwined lives span decades of war, oppression, and cultural change, revealing the strength of friendship, family, and love.

A personal, illustrated memoir of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Tehran, her coming‑of‑age during the Islamic Revolution, teenage years in Vienna and eventual exile from Iran.

Fauziya Kassindja’s journey from Togo to the United States, where she escaped female genital mutilation only to face imprisonment, is recounted through her own diary entries and the activism of law student Layli Miller Bashir.

Claire Banning, a beautiful debutante, marries a wealthy nobleman only to discover he is a dissolute wastrel. Forced to take her place in society, Claire is abducted and captured by a dangerous nobleman named Hugh Battancourt who leads a life dedicated to his country's service. When they are separated, Claire realizes she can never be happy with her husband, and Hugh realizes he can never be happy with his captive. Their bond grows stronger, and they are forced to overcome their differences to protect each other from a dangerous enemy.

In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistible to the British, who plundered everything, including the fabled Koh-I-Noor diamond. Exiled to England, the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate at Elveden in Suffolk into a Moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys and exotic birds. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was raised a genteel aristocratic Englishwoman: presented at court, afforded grace and favor lodgings at Hampton Court Palace and photographed wearing the latest fashions for the society pages. But when, in secret defiance of the British government, she travelled to India, she returned a revolutionary. Sophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality, a far cry from the life to which she was born. Her causes were the struggle for Indian Independence, the fate of the lascars, the welfare of Indian soldiers in the First World War--and, above all, the fight for female suffrage. She was bold and fearless, attacking politicians, putting herself in the front line and swapping her silks for a nurse's uniform to tend wounded soldiers evacuated from the battlefields. Meticulously researched and passionately written, this enthralling story of the rise of women and the fall of empire introduces an extraordinary individual and her part in the defining moments of recent British and Indian history

A first‑hand account of Jasvinder Sanghera’s journey from a victim of forced marriage to a frontline advocate, weaving real stories of abused and runaway Muslim women into a powerful portrait of resilience.

Theresa Longworth’s 1852 shipboard romance with future Viscount Yelverton spirals into a secret marriage, a doppelgänger union in Dublin, and a series of sensational trials that bring scandal and doubt to a Victorian upper‑class scandal.