Books like The door by Szabó, Magda

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin: A Novel of Women's Struggle and Feminism in the Late 19th Century South

In London, Judge Fiona Maye faces a heart‑wrenching case when a Jehovah’s Witness family rejects a life‑saving blood transfusion for their seventeen‑year‑old son, while a crumbling marriage tests her resolve.

A young American woman in Sofia discovers an urn of ashes and must uncover hidden family secrets tied to a musician oppressed by Bulgaria’s turbulent history.

A satirical psychological drama that weaves humor and suspense while exploring themes of liberty, technology, and family relationships in contemporary settings.

A sharp, dazzling collection of ten short stories that flip assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in contemporary America.

Shy, witty David Federman arrives at Harvard hoping to join like‑minded peers, but finds himself craving acceptance, love, and a place in an elite Upper East Side circle, all while grappling with his own morals.

The Door is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since *Morning in the Burned House*, a collection of 50 lucid, urgent, and politically charged poems that explore the mysteries of writing poetry and the universal fear of mortality.

A Swedish nurse falls into a passionate, forbidden affair with a senior doctor, struggling with power imbalance, personal ambition, and an unexpected secret that forces her to define her own destiny.

In the bustling streets of London, William and Neaera find the city’s hectic pace isolating; a quirky, heartwarming tale explores their lives through a turtle’s eyes and the quiet resilience of everyday workers.

An albino woman, Memory, writes her recollected truth while awaiting execution in Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi maximum‑security prison, questioning the nature of her conviction for the murder of her adopted father.

Set in 1942 Hong Kong, *The Piano Teacher* follows the forbidden love of Englishman Will Truesdale and Eurasianness Trudy Liang amid war. Decades later, teacher Claire Pendleton’s affair with Will forces her to confront a violent past and the cost of survival.

Based on the true story of Empress Josephine's cousin, "Seraglio" is a novel of a girl, kidnapped at age 13, who rose through the ranks of the Turkish Sultan's harem to become the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire.

In preewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Bálint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Irén Elekes, the headmaster's dutiful elder daughter, over her younger sister, the scatterbrained Blanka, and little Henriette Held, the daughter of the Jewish dentist. Their lives are torn apart in 1944 by the German occupation, which only the Elekes family survives intact. The postwar regime relocates them to a cramped Soviet-style apartment and they struggle to come to terms with social and political change, personal loss, and unstated feelings of guilt over the deportation of the Held parents and the death of little Henriette, who had been left in their protection. But the girl survives in a miasmal afterlife, and reappears at key moments as a mute witness to the inescapable power of past events."--