Books like The map of salt and stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

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.

Reimagining the Trojan War through the eyes of Achilles’ closest companion, Patroclus, the novel explores themes of friendship, heroism, and forbidden love amid mythic glory.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

In eighteenth‑century Cairo, Nahri, a street‑smart con artist, discovers she is the last of a line of djinn healers and is drawn into the luxurious, politically fraught city of Daevabad, where her powers could prevent a kingdom‑wide war.

A Chilean woman embarks on a quest to find her lover in 1840s California's goldfields, facing numerous challenges and adventures along the way.

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.

Ijeoma, a young Nigerian refugee, finds forbidden love with another displaced girl amid the civil war’s turmoil, risking everything for truth, hope, and a future of self‑determination.

On a secluded Australian island, a child‑less married couple quietly runs a lighthouse until a boat unexpectedly leaves a baby ashore, altering their isolated life.

A young Cambodian girl, Raami, struggles to survive the Khmer Rouge era, clinging to her father's stories while facing death, starvation, and forced labor amid Phnom Penh's chaos.

A historical fiction that follows a retired schoolteacher’s search for truth after discovering a British colonial diary in East Africa, illuminating the Asian diaspora’s ties to the region’s multicultural past.

Margo seeks her missing mother along Michigan’s Stark River, confronting her father's violent death, survival challenges, and the harsh reality of a young woman traveling alone in the 1970s.

A thrilling tale of espionage and love in wartime Paris, featuring a foreign correspondent who must navigate the treacherous politics of Europe as he races to protect a clandestine newspaper and its brave editors, journalists, and scientists who risk everything for a free Italy.

Pillar of Salt introduces the controversy over recollections of childhood sexual abuse as the window onto a much broader field of ideas concerning memory, storytelling, and the psychology of women. The book moves beyond the poles of "true" and "false" memories to show how women's stories reveal layers of gendered and ambiguous meanings, spanning a wide historical, cultural, literary, and clinical landscape. Pillar of Salt cuts a wide swath through modern Western history, extending the concept of transformative remembering into stories about the female self that have emerged historically in discourses on sexual abuse, hypnosis, and hysteria. As a constellation of topics, these writings portray a female subject in flux and a cultural situation where gender identity is unstable and thereby open to varying, sometimes conflicting, interpretations. Haaken shows how ideas within psychology about "concealed knowledge" are influenced by larger social and historical dynamics that shape the storytelling conventions available for creating an internally coherent narrative.