Books like Norwegian Wood
In late-1960s Tokyo, a quiet student, Toru Watanabe, is torn between Naoko, his dead friend's fragile girlfriend, and Midori, who is lively and direct, as the city's student protests come and go.
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
A Tokyo bar owner recalls a lost love from his youth, caught between the pull of what might have been and the quiet resignation of what is.
Men Without Women
Seven stories about men who have lost the women in their lives, including an actor who hires a young woman as his driver and finds himself telling her about his late wife.
The Marriage Plot
At Brown in the early 1980s, Madeleine, an English major, is caught between Leonard, a brilliant, troubled biologist, and Mitchell, a religious-studies student who believes she is meant for him.
Heart the Lover
Years later, a writer looks back at her final year of college, when she fell in with Sam and Yash, two brilliant best friends from her seventeenth-century literature class, and at the love triangle and the choices after graduation that changed all three lives.
Normal People
Connell and Marianne, from opposite ends of the social ladder in a small town in the west of Ireland, fall into a secret relationship at school and keep circling each other at Trinity College Dublin.
Strange Weather in Tokyo
A woman develops a tender relationship with her former high school teacher over sake and seasonal food.
Intermezzo
After their father's death, two Dublin brothers, a hard-charging lawyer and a younger chess prodigy, each fall into an unlikely relationship while barely managing to speak to each other.
Call Me by Your Name
A seventeen-year-old falls for an older scholar during a summer on the Italian Riviera, and the intensity of first love becomes a wound that shapes his entire life.
Snow Country
A Tokyo dilettante travels to a hot-spring town in snow country to visit his geisha lover, and the cold landscape mirrors the impossibility of their connection.
Broken Country
In Dorset in 1968, Beth Johnson, still grieving the son she and her husband, Frank, lost two years before, meets again her first love, Gabriel, now a famous novelist, who has come back to his family's estate nearby with his young son.
The Bad Girl
Ricardo, a Peruvian who wants nothing more than to live in Paris, falls for a girl he meets as a teenager in 1950s Lima, and she comes back into his life over four decades under different names.
Writers & Lovers
In the summer of 1997, Casey Peabody, thirty-one, grieving her mother, deep in debt and waiting tables in Massachusetts while she works on the novel she has been writing for six years, finds herself torn between two very different writers.