Books like The Man Who Walked Away A Novel by Maud Casey

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.

Twelve-year‑old Nao in Tokyo wrestles with loneliness and bullying and, before she ends it all, writes a diary about her great‑grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived a century. Across the Pacific a novelist on a remote island discovers objects from Nao’s life and is drawn into her mystery.

Michael Crichton’s thriller follows a seizure‑prone man who gains control of an implanted brain device, turning him into a dangerous and unstoppable antagonist.

A humorous tale of friendship and resilience after a family tragedy.

Zou Lei, a Chinese Muslim Uighur, travels to New York via Mexico and works in a restaurant, where she encounters Skinner, an Iraqi‑war veteran suffering from PTSD.

Five American mothers travel to France after World War I to visit the graves of their sons, forming a pilgrimage that reshapes their lives and bonds them in unexpected ways.

A murder at a New York City music school leads LAPC detectives Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic forensic pathologist, and Amelia Sachs, a forensic scientist, into a deadly game of deception with a master illusionist known as "the Conjurer."

When a woman with no memory of her past returns to find her former partner, a private investigator must uncover the truth behind her disappearance and the unresolved mystery of a shooting years earlier.

Zal, a boy raised in an Iranian village and later adopted in New York, struggles with a peculiar childhood trauma and the desire to reclaim humanity.

In "Mrs. Lincoln's Rival," Jennifer Chiaverini portrays the fierce social and political rivalry between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Kate Chase Sprague, the ambitious daughter of Salmon P. Chase, set against Washington society’s glittering high‑stakes world.

When a global apocalypse wipes out humanity, a lone wildlife researcher in Antarctica grapples with isolation and the strange persistence of the dead in a surreal “City,” where their continued existence relies on her memory.

Arkady Renko investigates a journalist’s mysterious death in Moscow, uncovering a labyrinth of political corruption, Mafia intrigue, and buried secrets that stretch from the city’s shadows to the remote Kaliningrad “secret city.”

Chicago inspector Roy Malley travels to California to investigate a thirty‑year‑old unsolved murder, only to discover the killer remains a respected community pillar.

Kenya Curtis, an eight‑year‑old Black girl in West Philadelphia, struggles to fit in as she navigates school, family rituals, and the cultural expectations of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her journey is one of self‑discovery and quiet rebellion.

Police officer Joe O’Brien, a proud Irish‑Catholic family man, is diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, forcing him and his four adult children to confront a genetic fate that threatens their futures and bonds.

"Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed his family on wages he earned digging ditches in the Texas sun, Plennie decided it was time to do something extraordinary -- something to resurrect the spirit of adventure and optimism he felt he'd lost. He decided to walk around the world -- backwards. In The Man Who Walked Backward, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery charts Plennie's backwards trek across the America that gave rise to Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, and the New Deal. With the Dust Bowl and Great Depression as a backdrop, Montgomery follows Plennie across the Atlantic through Germany, Turkey, and beyond, and details the daring physical feats, grueling hardships, comical misadventures, and hostile foreign police he encountered along the way. A remarkable and quirky slice of Americana, The Man Who Walked Backward paints a rich and vibrant portrait of a jaw-dropping period of history."--