Edward Rutherfurd 1987
- What it is
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One family, generation after generation · a world to get lost in
- Genre
- Historical fiction Literary
- Feels
- Atmospheric Bittersweet Epic Reflective
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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East of Eden
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Reflective and epic
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A reader shelved it with yours in Big books to disappear into for a month
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A big story that sweeps you along · melancholic and unhurried
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Family saga and epic
Pachinko
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Grouped with yours in Family sagas across generations
The House of the Spirits
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Readers put them together in Family sagas across generations
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Only reflective
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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Love hurts sometimes · it makes you cry, in a good way
Water for Elephants
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The same atmospheric and bittersweet, turned more sensual and dark
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin 2022
Sad, but it leaves you hopeful · it restores your faith in people
The Interestings
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Tender and sad at once · funny and sad at once
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid 2021
Comforting, like coming home · love hurts sometimes
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead 2021
As atmospheric and bittersweet as yours, only more mysterious and adventurous
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson 1997
It stays with you · you end up rooting for the wrong people
The Paris Bookseller
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Love hurts sometimes · it leaves you with a warm feeling
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe 1800
It makes you think, without a lecture, but in a classic
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf 1925
Comforting, like coming home · it stays with you
Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2006
It leaves you thinking · tender and sad at once
The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout 2026
Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel 2009
A reader shelved it with yours in Big books to disappear into for a month
The Group
Mary McCarthy 1968
Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro 1994
Comforting, like coming home · funny and sad at once
Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles 2016
Odd and endearing · funny and sad at once
The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce 2012
It hurts, and then it heals · you come out liking people more
The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud 2006
It leaves you thinking · sad, and in no hurry
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes 2011
It won't tell you everything at once · melancholic and unhurried
The Course of Love
Alain De Botton 2016
Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett 2023
Comforting, like coming home · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
9 books · Alike in just one
Only epic
Gone With the Wind
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Grouped with yours in Big books to disappear into for a month
Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett 2007
Grouped with yours in Big books to disappear into for a month
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson 2010
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas 1940
A reader shelved it with yours in Big books to disappear into for a month
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault 1972
Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Winter King
Bernard Cornwell 1995
Love in the middle of danger · an adventure with a love story in it
Ssea Of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh 2005
A world to get lost in · strangers who become a family
The Godfather
Mario Puzo 2004
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it with no filter
King Solomon's Mines
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A world to get lost in, but in a classic
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