Books like Atonement
If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Sun Also Rises
Because shares tags: literary fiction, war.
Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Because shares tags: war, literary fiction.
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Because shares tags: literary fiction, war.
Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See retold: blind Marie-Laure, Werner the radio boy, and Saint-Malo.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Because shares tags: war, literary fiction.
Splendid Suns retold: Mariam and Laila share Kabul house, war, Rasheed, escape and return.
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Words of Radiance
Because shares tag: war.
Kaladin guards Dalinar, Shallan hunts Urithiru, and the Everstorm gathers.
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White Oleander
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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War and Peace
Because shares tag: war.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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Tom Lake
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
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Things Fall Apart
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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The Virgin Suicides
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
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The Paper Palace
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
