Françoise Sagan · 1954
- What it is
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It feels like home · slow and sad, in the good way
- Genre
- Literary Classics
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
Books similar to Bonjour Tristesse
Coming from Bonjour Tristesse? Start with Brideshead Revisited, The Go-between, The Summer Book. 3 more below, each with why it fits.
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 1946
Like coming home · lovely, but it stings
The Go-between
L. P. Hartley · 1953
Grouped with yours in Novels set over one long summer
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson · 2000
A reader shelved it with yours in Novels set over one long summer
The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce · 2012
Like coming home · you come out liking people more
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Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Sad, and in no hurry · tender until it hurts
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Sadness on a low heat · it leaves you thinking
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