Books like Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi

A Little Life follows four college friends in New York as they confront trauma, love and the enduring scars of their pasts, weaving themes of friendship, family, and identity into a profound coming‑of‑age story.

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.

Seventeen‑year‑old Sahar, an Iranian American, secretly loves her best friend Nasrin amid the dangers of coming out in Iran. When a marriage is arranged, Sahar faces a heart‑wracking decision between love and identity.

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The fact of a Body chronicles Alexandria Marzano‑Lesnevich’s unsettling discovery of a convicted murderer’s confession while she works as a paralegal for a Louisiana law firm, forcing her to reexamine her anti‑death penalty convictions amid the shadows of her family’s legal legacy.

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.

A tender and lyrical memoir of a gay man's love story, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A biography that reveals the hidden life of Samuel M. Steward—novelist, poet, professor, and post‑Stonewall tattoo artist—through unpublished diaries and research correspondence, illustrating early homosexual existence in America.

A powerful memoir of Charles M. Blow’s rise from a childhood marked by violence and racism in segregated Louisiana to becoming a leading journalist and public intellectual.

A photographic journey through late‑1980s America that captures the varied lives of gay and lesbian communities, illustrating their efforts to form families, reconcile faith, and confront both racism and homophobia.

An intimate and absorbing biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's former lover, focusing on his life after the famous trial and his conversion to Catholicism.

A candid memoir charting the journey of Jennifer Finney Boylan from James to Jenny, detailing personal transformation, changing friendships, and a resilient marriage of love and family.

A coming-of-age story of a gay man struggling to be a straight man, from the 1950s to the present day.

Newton Arvin, a Smith College professor known for groundbreaking literary studies, struggled with McCarthyism and betrayed his friends after a raid on his apartment.

A memoir exploring the intersection of Christian Science, religion, and family in 20th-century America.

A compelling story of four trans girls forming a community in Los Angeles, with a memorable author's reporting style.

A Chinese transgender man's journey to self-acceptance and understanding of gender identity through a series of harrowing experiences and revelations about his true self and the world around him.