Books like Push by Sapphire

The beloved classic of American literature, Little Women, narrates the adventures of four March sisters as they grow up during the Civil War era.

The Kite Runner follows an unlikely friendship between a privileged boy and the son of his father’s servant amid Afghanistan’s turbulent history, exploring betrayal, redemption, and the father‑son bond.

A coming‑of‑age epistolary novel that follows introverted teen Charlie through his freshman year in a 1990s Pittsburgh suburb as he navigates high school, friendship and the challenges of adolescence.

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

Jeannette Walls' memoir chronicles her turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional, itinerant family, detailing poverty, alcoholism, and homelessness across the United States as she seeks stability and personal growth.

In 1964 South Carolina, Lily Owens, grieving her mother’s death, seeks refuge with a fierce stand‑in mother and a trio of black beekeeping sisters who open her to the secret world of bees, honey, and healing.

Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper follows a teenage girl who was born to serve as a perfect bone‑marrow donor for her sister’s leukemia, exploring family bonds, ethics, and identity as the siblings confront the life‑saving choices that define them.

Steve Harmon, a sixteen‑year‑old charged as an accomplice to murder, records his prison and courtroom experiences as a film script while confronting his self‑perception and fate.

Augusten Burroughs recounts his turbulent adolescence spent in a decaying Victorian home run by a psychiatrist, where ordinary rites of childhood give way to a surreal blend of family eccentricity, escape from school, and the early years of a future author.

A heartfelt graphic novel set on a New York‑state beach, following two teenage girls as they confront family turmoil, friendship, and secrets during a summer that threatens to change their lives forever.

A coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old girl grappling with the loss of her uncle and searching for the truth about her family's past.

Toni Morrison’s adult novel follows black fashion model Jadine Childs and fugitive lover, Son, as their love story weaves through the Caribbean, Manhattan and the deep South, confronting race, loyalty, ambition and crime.

Precious Jones, a sixteen‑year‑old illiterate African‑American girl in Harlem, navigates oppressive family life and adolescent pregnancy while attending an alternative school program that teaches her to read and write.

Sapphire Fabergine, denied an inherited title, seeks her place in society when she travels from Martinique to London and then to America, confronting the family that disowned her and the formidable Blake Thixton who challenges her quest for honor.

Blythe Connor, newly a mother, struggles to connect with her baby Violet and suspects something terrifically wrong. As doubts grow, she faces a chilling truth that shakes her sanity and family forever.

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.

Elie Wiesel chronicles the harrowing realities of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and how witnessing the loss of family and friends transformed his faith.

A young Irish woman, Eilis Lacey, leaves 1950s Ireland for Brooklyn, finding work, education, and love, only to be confronted with an impossible choice between a new life across the ocean and her roots back home.