Books like The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah

Nervous Conditions examines gender inequality and cultural identity in colonial Zimbabwe through the experiences of women and young Nyasha, who confronts assimilation and religious expectations.

Four short stories and two big novellas in Anthony Doerr’s second story collection explore the world from Alzheimer’s in South Africa to infertility in Wyoming and endangered sturgeon in Lithuania.

In 1850s Irish Midlands, an English nurse and a mysterious fasting girl collide in a tense thriller about faith, health, and a possible murder.

Former Trainspotting gang members return to Edinburgh, dreaming up quick‑money schemes that expose the quirky social customs of their lives.

The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

A novel exploring life, love, and the aftermath of 9/11.

The works of Kate Chopin, including short stories, psychological fiction, and women's fiction, highlighting the struggles of women and their relationships in the American South of the late 19th century.

In a remote moorland enclave, a religious cult awaits the apocalypse, but the arrival of a new recruit and her daughter disrupts its fragile order, leading to doubts, betrayals and a haunting examination of free will after the group's collapse.

Linda Katherine Cutting’s memoir, Memory Slips, chronicles her abuse‑ridden childhood, the healing role of music, and the resurfacing of repressed memories that shattered her musical world.

Drawing on his own work and that of other cognitive, clinical, and neuroscientists, Schacter gives us overwhelming evidence for the thesis that we possess more than one memory system, which explains why some brain-damaged people cannot remember past events, and others cannot acquire new knowledge or call up old. He also shows us how new breakthroughs in brain imaging are allowing us to see, for the first time, the many parts of the brain that must interact to enable us to encode or retrieve a memory. Searching for Memory contains fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with striking - and sometimes bizarre - amnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma. Schacter also takes us into the hidden world of implicit memories - unconscious influences of the past that, outside our awareness, affect our judgments, preferences, and actions. And he examines the nature and accuracy of emotionally traumatic memories, using the latest advances in cognitive neuroscience to clarify vexing issues in the heated controversy over repressed memories of childhood trauma.

Two families waiting for their Korean‑adopted babies meet at the airport, and their lives become intertwined at an annual welcome party. As the families navigate friendship, grief and cultural tension, a widowed Donaldson courts Maryam, an Iranian‑American whose values are challenged.