Books like Transit by Rachel Cusk

Never Let Me Go is a contemplative study of friendship, identity, and the ethical limits of science as it follows the lives of a group of students growing up in a quiet English boarding school.

A contemporary day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a 1920s London politician’s wife, as she prepares for an evening party and is haunted by memories of youth, friendships, and past loves.

Jennifer Egan’s interlocking narratives weave the lives of Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker turned record executive, and Sasha, a restless young woman, across decades and continents, exploring music, memory and the fragile threads that bind us.

A tale of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality.

A novelist leads an intensive creative‑writing course in hot Athens, guiding students through storytelling exercises while the conversations betray personal fantasies, anxieties, and regrets, gradually revealing her own journey of loss.

A teacher's unexpected journey to uncover the secrets of a young student's family.

A contemporary novel set in London about the relationship between two strangers who dine at the same restaurant and how their lives intersect over the course of a single dinner party.

In Victorian London, long‑separated friends Emily ‘Fido’ Faithfull and Helen rekindle a bond when Fido steers Helen into an affair with a young army officer, only to risk everything with a mysterious sealed letter.

"Latin instructor Jerome Washington is a man out of place. The lone African-American teacher at the Chelsea School, an all-boys boarding school in Connecticut, he has championed the classical virtues of rigor and discipline since he was hired nearly two decades ago. Nicknamed "Wooden Washington" by his students, he has spent his career - and his life - at Chelsea trying not to appear too "racial": He is reserved, controlled, seemingly content with his isolated life.". "Into his classroom one autumn morning steps Rashid Bryson, a promising African-American student from New York City. He sees in Washington a potential ally, a man who is sure to understand the younger man's need to find his bearings in this citadel of the white status quo. But to Bryson's surprise and dismay, Washington responds unexpectedly to him. It is up to Jana Hansen, herself a newcomer to Chelsea, to come to Bryson's aid. A middle-aged white divorcee who used to teach public school in Cleveland, she is as foreign to the sylvan self-possession of the Chelsea School as Washington and Bryson are.". "As the three get to know one another, and as they struggle with their individual loss, they begin their journey toward an inevitable and ultimately tragic confrontation that is both painful and life-altering. Told from three different perspectives, The Fall of Rome explores powerful and timely issues as it unfolds inexorably, like the classical tragedies that were the glory of ancient civilizations."--BOOK JACKET.

A London history teacher’s instinct that a new female colleague is different is proven as the newcomer takes part in an illicit affair with a pupil, forcing her to confront forbidden desires, loyalty, and the limits of friendship.

Henry Skrimshander, a baseball star at the small Lake Michigan school Westish College, faces self‑doubt when a routine throw goes awry, unsettling the lives of five people.

The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue she ended the relationship. Years later he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.