Books like

Books like Eva Luna

12 books with a reading profile close to Eva Luna by Isabel Allende. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

1

My Policeman

by Bethan Roberts

Also inward-looking · 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.
2

In Memoriam

by Alice Winn

Also inward-looking · 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.
3

Swimming in the Dark

by Tomasz Jedrowski

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Set in early 1980s Poland during the decline of the communist regime, the story follows Ludwik Glowacki, a university student who falls in love with the charismatic Janusz at an agricultural summer camp.
4

Evenings and Weekends

by Oisín McKenna

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Set during a sweltering weekend in London, the narrative follows a group of interconnected friends navigating the precariousness of the modern city.
5

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Salva, a Mexican-American teenager raised by his adoptive gay father, begins his senior year of high school feeling an unfamiliar, simmering anger.
6

Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier

romance, narrative

In the final stages of the American Civil War, a Confederate soldier named Inman deserts his hospital ward to walk hundreds of miles back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
7

Memorial

by Bryan Washington

Also inward-looking · 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.
8

Sunburn

by Chloe Michelle Howarth

Also inward-looking · 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.
9

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

by Emily M. Danforth

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

After her parents die in a car accident, Cameron Post moves to rural Montana to live with her conservative aunt and grandmother.
10

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Set in 1954 San Francisco, the story follows Lily Hu, a seventeen-year-old high school student living in Chinatown.
11

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

In 1974 Nicosia, teenagers Kostas and Defne meet secretly at a taverna to navigate their forbidden relationship across the Greek-Turkish partition.
12

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

by Akwaeke Emezi

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Five years after the car accident that killed her husband, Feyi Adekola is finally re-entering the dating scene in Brooklyn.

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