Books like Cold Mountain
12 books with a reading profile close to Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Travesuras de la niña mala
romance, narrative
Ricardo, a Peruvian translator who lives in Paris, first falls for Lily, a Chilean girl in Lima in the 1950s.
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2
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
romance, narrative
Sonia and Sunny are two individuals navigating the isolation of contemporary urban life while attempting to maintain a long-distance connection.
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3
The Paying Guests
by Sarah Waters
romance, narrative
Set in 1922 South London, the narrative centers on Frances Wray and her widowed mother, who are forced by financial ruin following the Great War to take in lodgers.
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4
In Memoriam
by Alice Winn
romance, narrative
In 1914, Gaunt and Ellwood are students at Preshute College, an elite English boarding school where they hide their romantic feelings for one another behind a shared obsession with epic poetry.
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5
Eva Luna
romance, narrative
Eva Luna is born to a servant mother and a gardener father in an unnamed South American country, and her mother tells her stories to survive.
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6
Evenings and Weekends
romance, narrative
Set during a sweltering weekend in London, the narrative follows a group of interconnected friends navigating the precariousness of the modern city.
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7
The Island of Missing Trees
by Elif Shafak
romance, narrative
In 1974 Nicosia, teenagers Kostas and Defne meet secretly at a taverna to navigate their forbidden relationship across the Greek-Turkish partition.
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8
Trespasses
romance, narrative
Set in 1970s Belfast during the Troubles, the narrative follows Cushla Lavery, a Catholic primary school teacher who divides her time between her classroom and her family’s pub.
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9
Exciting Times
by Naoise Dolan
romance, narrative
Ava is a twenty-two-year-old Irish expatriate teaching English to wealthy children in Hong Kong.
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10
My Policeman
romance, narrative
Brighton in the 1950s: Tom, a young policeman, courts and marries Marion, a schoolteacher, while also carrying on a secret relationship with Patrick, a museum curator, at a time when homosexuality is a crime.
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11
Memorial
romance, narrative
Benson, a Black daycare teacher in Houston, and Mike, a Japanese American chef, have been together for a couple of years and are unsure about their relationship.
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12
Sunburn
romance, narrative
Set in the early 1990s in the rural Irish village of Crosshaven, this novel follows Lucy, a teenager navigating the oppressive social expectations of a small Catholic community.
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