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Books Like Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro · about this book

Loved Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro? If its literary fiction, emotional and first person narrator hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Hamnet, All the Light We Cannot See and To Kill a Mockingbird. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Never Let Me Go: Literary Fiction · Emotional · First Person Narrator · Clones · Female Lead

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   Hamnet

   Maggie O'Farrell

   Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative · Emotional

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2. 

   All the Light We Cannot See

   Anthony Doerr

   Loss of Innocence · Haunting · Tragic · Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction

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   To Kill a Mockingbird

   Harper Lee

   Loss of Innocence · Nostalgic · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator · Bittersweet

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4. 

   I Who Have Never Known Men

   Jacqueline Harpman

   Haunting · Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Female Friendship · First Person Narrator

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5. 

   The Lovely Bones

   Alice Sebold

   Haunting · Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Bittersweet · Literary Fiction

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6. 

   The Catcher in the Rye

   Jerome David Salinger

   Loss of Innocence · Boarding School · Literary Fiction · Nostalgic · Character-Driven

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7. 

   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Tragic · Literary Fiction · Nostalgic · Haunting · Bittersweet

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8. 

   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Bittersweet · Death of a Friend · Emotional

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9. 

   Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

   Gabrielle Zevin

   Nonlinear Narrative · Death of a Friend · Nostalgic · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet

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10. 

    Girl, Interrupted

    Susanna Kaysen

    Nonlinear Narrative · Female Friendship · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven · Haunting

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11. 

    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Ocean Vuong

    Haunting · Literary Fiction · Death of a Friend · Nonlinear Narrative · Emotional

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12. 

    A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

    Anthony Marra

    Haunting · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Nonlinear Narrative

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13. 

    Sunrise on the Reaping

    Suzanne Collins

    Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Dystopian · Death of a Friend · Science Fiction

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14. 

    I Have Some Questions for You

    Rebecca Makkai

    Boarding School · Nostalgic · Death of a Friend · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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15. 

    Firefly Lane

    Kristin Hannah

    Death of a Friend · Bittersweet · Nostalgic · Emotional · Character-Driven

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16. 

    The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

    Dystopian · Bittersweet · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Science Fiction

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17. 

    This Time Tomorrow

    Emma Straub

    Bittersweet · Female Friendship · Character-Driven · Nostalgic · Emotional

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18. 

    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Emotional

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19. 

    Corrag

    Susan Fletcher

    Haunting · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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20. 

    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

    Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Death of a Friend · Emotional · Literary Fiction

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