Books like The book of longings by Sue Monk Kidd

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie dies and finds himself in a Tibetan bardo, where ghosts, grief and battle over a young boy’s soul blend absurdity with the horror of loss.

After the Civil War, a veteran newspaper‑reader, Captain Jefferson Kidd, journeys through Texas and agrees to escort an orphaned Kiowa girl, Johanna, to San Antonio—a perilous trek that tests their survival and trust.

When a mysterious psychic arrives in 1969 Lower East Side, New York, four siblings learn the day they will die, setting off a life‑long quest that tests fate, choice, family and the search for meaning.

When a ten‑year‑old Sarah is seized in the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv’ roundup, her friend Julia, a journalist two decades later, discovers that the past still haunts their families and forces her to confront her own identity in post‑war France.

Mario Puzo traces the rise of the Borgia family, revealing the intertwined forces of ambition, faith, and power that shaped one of Italy’s most notorious dynasties.

In Brooklyn, 18‑year‑old Deya faces an arranged marriage while discovering family secrets that connect her to her Palestinian heritage, revealing the struggles of Arab‑American women between tradition and personal choice.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

In the third book of the Bailey Flanigan Series, a long‑silenced romance reawakens as Bailey Flanigan reconnects with her Hollywood co‑star Brandon Paul and contemplates a fading love with Cody Coleman amid New York nightlife and a small‑town football crisis.

James Salter's 'All that is' is a captivating and sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition. A deeply intimate portrait of the emotional and physical experiences of being alive. Set during the golden decades following World War II, the book captures Salter's lifelong obsession with capturing the intimate, ephemeral spaces that all of us hold and leave behind on paper. After serving as a young officer in Okinawa during the war, Philip Bowman returns home to a small publishing house in New York. The frenetic social scene of New York in the post-war era is a backdrop for the story, where Bowman feels at home. However, his enduring love seems to elude him. When he meets a woman who captivates him, Bowman embarks on a journey that he never intended to take. The book is celebrated for its lyrical evocation of a post-war world imaginatively rendered and beautifully written.

Near her hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty confronts the impending closure of Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, revealing her life and Ireland’s hidden past through journals with her psychiatrist, Dr Grene.

A poignant WWII tale of an Irish writer who travels to Paris, forging deep friendships, engaging in the French Resistance, and navigating the horrors of Nazi occupation, all while chronicling the turbulent era with literary grace.

Lady‑in‑waiting Margaret Pole navigates the Tudor court, witnessing Henry VIII’s rise and the rise of Anne Boleyn, while balancing loyalty to his queens and to the old royal line.

When an American boy and a warlord’s engaged daughter vanish together in an Eastern European border country, former flame Chet Stryker must chase them before an international crisis erupts, all while protecting Mae Lund from a dangerous enemy.

In "Mrs. Lincoln's Rival," Jennifer Chiaverini portrays the fierce social and political rivalry between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Kate Chase Sprague, the ambitious daughter of Salmon P. Chase, set against Washington society’s glittering high‑stakes world.

A fictionalized account of Israel Potter's life and experiences, featuring famous American Revolution figures like Benjamin Franklin and John Paul Jones.

Norah Vincent’s biography illuminates Virginia Woolf’s final months, linking the novelist’s creative exile and the cultural milieu of the Bloomsbury Group to her tragic suicide.

In the 1920s, 28‑year‑old Hadley Richardson meets Ernest Hemingway in Chicago, marries him, and together they become Hollywood’s golden couple in Paris, navigating self‑doubt, jealousy, and literary ambition amid the expatriate scene.

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