Books like The Quilting Circle by Jennifer Blake

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.

Twenty‑five year‑old Belly Conklin returns to the family summer home on the coast, where a cancer diagnosis forces her to confront love, loss, and growing up amid the familiar rhythm of beach life.

Caseworker Linus travels to a remote orphanage to investigate ragged kids and their enigmatic caretaker Arthur, only to discover that the island’s magical children—and his own heart—are part of something larger than he imagined.

In her witty, heartfelt tale, Julia Quinn’s Lady Whistledown records the scandalous heartbreak of a debutante jilted by her intended and swept into the company of a deceitful rogue’s older brother, stirring London society into a frenzy of gossip.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

In this holiday anthology featuring Sabrina Jeffries’ School for Heiresses series, young heiresses face challenges and unexpected adventures when their powerful school matriarch sends them home for the holidays.

In the early‑1800s Charleston, a young enslaved woman named Handful and a free white girl, Sarah Grimke, forge a bond that transforms their lives, as they confront slavery, gender oppression, and the fight for abolition.

A child's newly made patchwork quilt brings back old memories and sparks fresh bedtime adventures.

A historical romance set in 16th century England, featuring Lorna Doone, a young woman who is kidnapped and becomes a fugitive during the Monmouth Rebellion.

Four New York Times bestselling authors bring four all-new novellas to life, each inspired by the grail quests of the past and the eternal love of today.

A collection of three American historical romances, each featuring a unique cat that plays a pivotal role in a woman’s love story across 1700s Louisiana, early 1900s Idaho, and mythical Wales.

A love story between a middle-aged man and a young woman from a partisans' family in London, set against the backdrop of the 1970s, exploring the seductive power of storytelling.

Explore the adventures of four charming rogues and their fiery romances.

A master quilter unfolds a 19th-century mystery tied to an escaped slave and her son, using a faded quilt as the key to uncover hidden family secrets.

A pioneer mother stitches a quilt that warms and comforts her daughter, Abigail, and years later another mother repairs it for her little girl, weaving generations together through fabric.

When two founding members of the Elm Creek Quilts leave, the tightly bound group must choose among new candidates—a history enthusiast, a chef, and a gifted teacher—testing their bonds and the future of their quilting community.

Quilting was one of the few forms of creative expression open to past generations of women. Within the acceptable confines of making something "useful," these women stitched rather than penned their stories. Other artistic avenues have opened, but the writers gathered in this unique collection still claim kinship with their quilting sisters by the use of quilts in their writing. Featuring works of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Adrienne Rich, Alice MacGowan, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album quilt composed of the unique blocks created and signed by the writers. More than twenty-five stories, poems, and plays featuring the making of quilts - written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women - document an important pattern in women's literary history. Five thematic sections explore quilts as expressions of remembrance and meaning (Memory Blocks), of community and courtship (Double Wedding Ring), of struggle and change (Radical Rose), of mystery and murder (Wheel of Mystery), and of age and wisdom (Old Maid's Ramble). In her introduction, Cecilia Macheski notes that these stories encourage us "to see women's literary history as a giant timeless quilting bee, where the writers gather around a frame and trade stories, gossip, and love." Renouncing the "competitiveness of the patriarchal world," women writers have, in the imagery of the quilt, instead chosen "a model of cooperative and supportive creativity."

A story of love, loss, and reconnecting with family.

A tale of romance and war in 18th-century New York, where a widow must navigate a tumultuous time and choose between two suitors, Loyalist and Patriot, before the war erupts.