Books like The Dust That Falls From Dreams by Louis de Bernières

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

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 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

The Goldfinch chronicles the life of thirteen‑year‑old Theo Decker, who survives a museum attack that kills his mother and carries an art piece that becomes a lifelong obsession, exploring loss, identity, and art in contemporary America.

In 1935 England, a young woman’s allegation of a crime sets off a chain of events that devastates families, alters lives during the Second World War, and echoes into a later life of remorse and reflection.

Alma Singer, a fourteen‑year‑old New Yorker, searches for a book that might cure her mother’s loneliness, while Leo Gursky, an immigrant in the city, hunts the hidden author of a novel that once inspired his love in Polish exile.

A love story set against the backdrop of World War II in Greece.

A Catholic priest, scarred by his past, navigates early 1930s Mexico while the church faces persecution, providing aid to impoverished peasants under the threat of ruthless police and betrayal.

Ask the Dust (P.S.) follows Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles, as he battles poverty, loves the Mexican waitress Camilla Lopez, and struggles to shape his future, only to see his dreams shatter.

A novel about religious intolerance, nationalism, and the impact of World War I on the lives of ordinary soldiers and civilians, with a focus on the tragic love story of Philothei and Ibrahim.

A sweeping family saga that follows the Clifton and Barrington families through love, betrayal, and corporate intrigue in 1960s Britain as secrets and ambition collide.

A dark New England mansion, the House of the Seven Gables, casts an ancestral curse over the Pyncheon family, revealing secrets, mysterious deaths, and a complex mix of gothic, historical, and moral themes.

A thriller that brings together political intrigue, family drama and cross‑border espionage when a suicide note triggers a chain of events affecting the Clifton family, a London banker, and a woman behind the Iron Curtain.

Harry Clifton navigates the fallout of an IRA bombing, using a newly acquired radio station to support a political prisoner while his family faces political pressure and secret pasts.

Reads like prequel to Suite Francaise, but is a perfect novel in its own right - a gripping story of family life, of money and love, set against the backdrop of France in two terrible world wars.In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so – a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author's death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars.Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie observed close-up with Nemirovsky's characteristically sly humour and clear-eyed compassion. Full of drama and heartbreak, telling observation of the devastating effects of two wars on a small town and an industrial family, this is Nemirovsky at the height of her powers. The exodus and flow of refugee humanity through the town in both wars foreshadows Suite Francaise, but differently, because this is Northern France, near the Somme, and the town itself is twice razed. Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, the novel points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly... It opens in the Edwardian era, on a fashionable Normandy beach, and ends with a changed world, under Nazi occupation.

In "Ask the Dust", John Fante’s Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in 1930s Los Angeles, forms a precarious love‑hate bond with waitress Camilla Lopez while grappling with ambition, poverty and the quest for identity.

After losing his sight in World War II, Matthew Wallingham returns home to protect his family farm, reconcile with resentful relatives, and pursue a future of hope and love.

Set in the final months of World War I, *We Shall Not Sleep* follows Captain‑Chaplain Joseph Reavley, his sister ambulance driver Judith, and their brother Matthew as they confront war‑torn violence, a ruthless ideology, and a dangerous plot that threatens the fragile peace.