Books like A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle

In Matt Haig’s Midnight Library, Nora Seed explores an infinite library in which every book records a life she could have lived, challenging her to confront regret, choice, and the meaning of a fulfilled existence.

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.

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.

A Connecticut labor nurse is forced to confront racial prejudice when a white supremacist family refuses her care, leading to a legal battle that forces both her and her public defender to re-examine their assumptions about race, justice, and compassion.

When her daughter Amelia is suspended and later found dead, a mother faces police, guilt, and a mystery that forces her to question the truth of her own grief.

It is 1974 when Leni Allbright's impulsive father Ernt decides the family is moving to Alaska. But the Alaskan winter is just as unforgiving as Ernt, and life quickly becomes a struggle for survival.

In the isolated Ozark town of Henbane, Lucy Dane’s search for her missing friend unearths a buried family secret and a chilling truth about her own mother, revealing how violence and secrecy haunt rural life.

"In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing - in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story - a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.". "Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the foundress of the Catholic Worker movement and its penny newspaper in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-centered" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them - the School of the Holy Ghost - and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common."". "A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story, and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Paul Elie tells these four writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-possessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms their readers could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change - to save - our lives."--BOOK JACKET.

Two best friends uncover a dangerous secret hidden in the attic, forcing them to confront a murderous past that threatens their small town and their own safety.

A collection of T. C. Boyle’s sharp, inventive short stories that blend satire, myth, and melancholy to explore human folly, love, and cultural quirks across a wide terrain of modern life.