Books like Maybe next time by Joan Smith

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

In Matt Haig’s Midnight Library, Nora Seed explores an infinite library in which every book records a life she could have lived, challenging her to confront regret, choice, and the meaning of a fulfilled existence.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s poignant memoir chronicles his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer and his reflections on life, medicine, and mortality.

In Regency England, clay‑bound family fortunes clash with poetic dreams as a disreputable nephew’s return from India sparks forbidden desire, forcing love to blossom between a widowed sister and an unlikely hero.

A darkly humorous account of addiction and self-discovery.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

When a pair of orphaned children from India are sent to England, their aunt Wendy confronts a tyrannical noble guardian to secure their safety and future.

Darcy Lewis runs into ex‑wife Emma on a singles cruise and the past refuses to stay in the aisles—one night together reignites old feelings, but a pregnancy and divorce keep them apart. Yet both instinctively lean on each other, hinting at a second chance.

After fifteen years apart, Emily, a successful Chicago sports agent, hears her old friend Woody on a late‑night radio show, sparking her journey to rekindle a high‑school romance with Jeff.