Books like Never Satisfied by Michael Baisden

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 intimate exploration of social class, marital conflict, and romantic desire set in early twentieth‑century England.

Twin African American sisters flee their hometown after their father's murder—one chooses to pass as white while the other stays true to her identity, exploring race, family, and the complexities of self through generations.

Celestial and Roy, a young couple embodying the American Dream, are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted and sent to prison. Five years later, his conviction is overturned, forcing Celestial to confront the fractured life she must rebuild.

A romantic story of two young adults navigating love through the challenges of autism spectrum disorder, first meeting as university chess partners, reuniting decades later in Chicago as they confront their past anxieties and new futures.

Three-year-old Ben vanishes in Chicago, leaving his mother Beth and family on a nine‑year grief spiral as authorities search, while the siblings’ lives unravel and a surprising turn offers hope for the shattered Cappadora home.

Emma Davis, a rising New York artist, returns to the reopened Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor to uncover the truth behind her friends' disappearance, confronting hidden secrets and dangerous threats that may exact a deadly cost for closure.

"This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-normative marital practices, this work analyses the nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access to the courts; and reveals ways in which female agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such controls"--