Books like The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

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.

Middlesex follows a Greek-American family's multigenerational saga, charting the life of its intersex protagonist as they navigate gender identity and the search for belonging.

Cora, a woman enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation, partners with a new slave named Caesar to flee the South. Their daring escape follows a literal underground network of tunnels that mirrors the perilous journey of countless fugitive slaves toward freedom.

Homegoing is Yaa Gyasi’s debut historical novel that traces generations of an Asante family from 18th‑century Ghana to modern America, exploring the enduring impact of slavery and colonialism.

On Beauty explores a New England family’s life as they confront love, identity, and cultural divides over three decades, weaving personal struggles with broader conversations about race and belonging.

A sweeping epic of 20th-century London that follows Nick Jenkins and his circle through the 1920s, the interwar years, and the war, exploring changes in society, art, business, and personal relationships.

A disorienting journey through memory and identity as a Nebraska truck driver with Capgras Syndrome confronts a sister who may be an impostor, while a cognitive neurologist probes the blurred line between reality and perception.

The Keepers of the House follows the Howland family of a Mississippi plantation as a long‑shrouded truth about an interracial relationship threatens to upend their standing and forces a young woman to confront betrayal, injustice, and her own agency.

A historical fiction that follows a retired schoolteacher’s search for truth after discovering a British colonial diary in East Africa, illuminating the Asian diaspora’s ties to the region’s multicultural past.

After the Iranian Revolution, rare‑gem dealer Isaac Amin is wrongfully imprisoned, forcing his family to confront a new reality of danger, suspicion, and the loss of a homeland.

In Mosaic Man, Ronald Sukenick turns his innovative style to the roots of Western and Jewish tradition. Using the form of the Old Testament as a contemporary Jewish epic, Sukenick reinvents the Jewish novel in the context of Pop culture, and repositions it on the cutting edge of millennial America. You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy Mosaic Man, you just have to like comics, movies and TV. Sukenick, one of the old masters of Postmodern fiction, here draws on traditional Jewish narratives such as the Golem story, and presents a vast scope of post-holocaust experience, moving from New York to Paris to Poland to Italy to Jerusalem. Spanning a range from rough sex to quasi-theological speculation, from moral injunction to liberating autobiographical candor, the book is a mosaic of stories making the case that in our new electronic universe, the parts are the whole.

A sweeping love story that spans Budapest and Paris, following three Jewish brothers whose lives are reshaped by World War II and the desperate strife of family.

A sweeping, generational saga that follows an African American family from the post‑Civil War era through the Great Depression, illuminating the complex ties—family, race, and regional—shaping America.

Sunday Tolliver, a successful but troubled African American teenager, navigates the challenges of fame and the music industry.