BookFeed Ελληνικά If Klara and the Sun stayed with you, these share its feel: tenderness, love and solitude. Each comes with a real page, so you can tell in a minute.
About Klara and the Sun · Kazuo Ishiguro
Caro Claire Burke, 2026
Also wonder and unease. A sharp, funny novel about the performances women give—at church, online, in marriage—and what it costs to keep the smile in place.
A voice in my head, echoing softly: America hates angry women. The Lord hates angry women. You hate angry women. Do not be an angry woman. Matt Haig, 2020
Also love. A library between life and death, where every book on the shelf is one of the lives Nora could have chosen and didn't.
It was hard not to compare Mrs Elm to her mother, who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction. For instance, when she was a baby her mother had been so worried Nora’s left ear stuck out more than her right that she’d used sticky tape to address the situation, then disguised it beneath a woollen bonnet. Shelby Van Pelt, 2022
Also tenderness and solitude. A grieving aquarium cleaner, a teenager with no direction, and the giant Pacific octopus quietly working to put them in each other's path.
As a general rule, I like holes. A hole at the top of my tank gives me freedom. But I do not like the hole in her heart. She only has one, not three, like me. Tova’s heart. I will do everything I can to help her fill it. Sally Rooney, 2024
Also love and tenderness. Two brothers, one bereaved summer, and the careful negotiations of love — Rooney's close, unsparing attention to how people actually talk to each other.
Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved. John le Carré, 1974
Also tenderness and unease. A retired spy is handed a suspicion: someone at the top of British intelligence is working for Moscow. All he has is patience.
Now whole vistas of deceit opened before Guillam. His friends, his loves, even the Circus itself, joined and re-formed in endless patterns of intrigue. A line of Mendel’s came back to him, dropped two nights ago as they drank beer in some glum suburban pub: “Cheer up, Peter, old son. Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.” Jane Austen, 1817
Also love and wonder. A woman of twenty-seven meets again the man she was talked out of marrying, and begins to wonder whether prudence was ever a virtue.
They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples), there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement. Colleen Hoover, 2016
Also love and tenderness. A Boston florist falls for a neurosurgeon, then meets the first boy she loved—and must reckon with what she owes her own history.
Gabrielle Zevin, 2014
Also tenderness and love. A bookseller, a lost child, and a life measured in the books we hand to each other.
Margery Williams Bianco, 1922
Also tenderness and love. A toy rabbit is loved into reality, worn thin by affection and nearly thrown away — a small book about what love does to the thing that is loved.
Markus Zusak, 2005
Also tenderness and love. A girl steals books in Nazi Germany while Death, tired and curious, narrates her story. A voice-driven novel about words, courage, and ordinary people.
Haruki Murakami, 1987
Also love and tenderness. A Tokyo student is pulled between a fragile girl from his past and a loud, alive girl in his present. Memory, desire, and grief, set to Beatles songs.
Gabriel García Márquez, 1967
Also solitude and wonder. A family and a town live through a century of wars, omens, loves and repetitions, told in prose where the impossible arrives like weather.
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