Books like Carnegie's maid by Marie Benedict

Jeannette Walls' memoir chronicles her turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional, itinerant family, detailing poverty, alcoholism, and homelessness across the United States as she seeks stability and personal growth.

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.

An American college girl in 1947 discovers her belated quest to uncover the fate of her vanished French cousin during WWI, leading her to the shadowy Alice Network where a former spy haunted by betrayal seeks vengeance.

Set in a wartime English seaside town of the 1790s, Sylvia's Lovers follows a young woman torn between the passionate whaling harpooner Charley Kinraid and her devoted cousin Philip Hepburn, whose secret withholding ends in tragedy.

James Salter's 'All that is' is a captivating and sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition. A deeply intimate portrait of the emotional and physical experiences of being alive. Set during the golden decades following World War II, the book captures Salter's lifelong obsession with capturing the intimate, ephemeral spaces that all of us hold and leave behind on paper. After serving as a young officer in Okinawa during the war, Philip Bowman returns home to a small publishing house in New York. The frenetic social scene of New York in the post-war era is a backdrop for the story, where Bowman feels at home. However, his enduring love seems to elude him. When he meets a woman who captivates him, Bowman embarks on a journey that he never intended to take. The book is celebrated for its lyrical evocation of a post-war world imaginatively rendered and beautifully written.

The Old Maid follows young Tina as she navigates family ties and social expectations in 1920s New York, culminating in a marriage that exposes hidden tensions between her adopted mother Delia and her birth‑aunt Charlotte.

Maddie Chester leaves her memories of Gansett Island for a housekeeping job at McCarthy's Resort, only to be injured by the town’s charming heir, Mac McCarthy, who nurses her back to health and becomes unexpectedly involved in her life.

Set amid the Hundred Years' War, the novel follows Jehanne d'Arc—an orphaned peasant girl who rises from domestic hardship to lead France’s armies, exploring faith, fame, and the human cost of war.

A young woman's passion for T. S. Eliot's letters becomes a central plot in this heart-wrenching novel of marriage, desire, and the Holocaust.

A novel of courage, violence, and passions set against the backdrop of World War II, focusing on soldiers and their bonds within the military setting.

Set in the 1850s, this romance follows Nicole Renard, a debutante struggling to hold her heart in check as she navigates society’s expectations while falling for the enigmatic Darius Thornton.

In 1884, a London housekeeper’s chance meeting with New York architect Theodore Camden launches her imagination; a century later, his granddaughter’s renovation plans uncover dark secrets that reshape their lives.

A biographical fiction that spotlights Mitza Maric, the brilliant physicist behind Albert Einstein, exploring her contributions to relativity, her partnership with Einstein, and her life as a woman in early 20th-century academia.

A true‑story drama following Millie Stein, who secretly shelters the Rosenbergs' children after the couple’s arrest, forcing her to confront friendship, loyalty, and injustice amid the Cold War’s espionage hunt.

Rosina Harrison, a Yorkshire family servant, became the personal maid of Lady Astor, the first woman to take her seat in Parliament. Their 35‑year relationship reveals both the opulence of 1929 'upstairs' life and the relentless demands of 'downstairs' service.