Books like The Remains of the Day
If you liked The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Never Let Me Go
Because also by Kazuo Ishiguro; shares tags: literary fiction, memory.
Kathy looks back on Hailsham, the English school where she and her friends were raised for an unspoken purpose.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Because shares tags: classic, literary fiction.
Clarissa Dalloway gives a London party across one June day while veteran Septimus Smith faces shell shock in the same city.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Because shares tags: literary fiction, classic.
John Wheelwright believes in God because of Owen Meany, the tiny friend whose foul ball killed his mother.
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Atonement
Because shares tags: literary fiction, england.
A thirteen year old misreads two lovers at a country house in 1935, and her false claim follows all three through war.
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The Notebook
Because shares tags: memory, literary fiction.
The Notebook retold: Noah reads to Allie in a nursing home, summer love in New Bern, letters and choice.
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Klara and the Sun
Because also by Kazuo Ishiguro; shares tag: literary fiction.
Solar robot Klara loves Josie and bargains with the Sun to save her.
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V for Vendetta
Because shares tag: classic.
A masked rebel stalks fascist London while lost girl Evey finds her nerve, in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1988 DC graphic novel.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
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The Thirteenth Tale
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
A dying novelist tells her true story at last to a bookseller's daughter, and the mystery of the Angelfield twins comes into the open.
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The Things They Carried
Because shares tag: classic.
Alpha Company humps through Vietnam carrying rifles, letters, and guilt. O'Brien's linked 1990 collection asks what a true war story really…
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The Prophet
Because shares tag: classic.
A prophet delayed twelve years answers his city on love, work, sorrow and freedom before his ship sails.
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The Namesake
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Jhumpa Lahiri follows Gogol Ganguli from a hated namesake to adult loss, marriage, and family reckoning between Calcutta and Boston.
