💔 Melancholy Immortal

The particular sorrow of living forever — watching loved ones age and die, accumulating centuries of loss that no amount of time can heal.

How to Stop Time / The Humans / The Radleys

by Matt Haig

He's 400 years old. His society forbids love. Then a colleague recognizes him from a past life.

3.33

🐢 Slow Aging 🕵️ Secret Societies 🏝️ Solitude

How to Stop Time / The Humans / The Radleys Summary

How to Stop Time / The Humans / The Radleys 89%

He's 400 years old. His society forbids love. Then a colleague recognizes him from a past life.

by Matt Haig

3.33

21 ratings

🐢 Slow Aging 🕵️ Secret Societies 🏝️ Solitude

The God of Endings

by Jacqueline Holland • 2023

An immortal teacher cages her hunger behind a preschool until a dying boy needs her darkest self.

3.81

13k+

🧛 Literary Vampire 🩸 Reluctant Monster 👧 Immortal Guardian

The God of Endings 89%

An immortal teacher cages her hunger behind a preschool until a dying boy needs her darkest self.

by Jacqueline Holland 2023

3.81

13k+ ratings

🧛 Literary Vampire 🩸 Reluctant Monster 👧 Immortal Guardian

The Fountain

by Casey Scieszka • 2026

An immortal woman, exhausted by centuries, returns to her valley home hoping to finally die.

3.84

2k+

🧬 Immortal Protagonist 📖 Literary Fantasy 🫂 Found Family

The Fountain 88%

An immortal woman, exhausted by centuries, returns to her valley home hoping to finally die.

by Casey Scieszka 2026

3.84

2k+ ratings

🧬 Immortal Protagonist 📖 Literary Fantasy 🫂 Found Family

The Magician of Tiger Castle

by Louis Sachar • 2025

A Renaissance magician must erase a princess's love for a scribe before the wedding banquet.

3.53

9k+

🏛️ Renaissance Fantasy 🏰 Court Intrigue 🧙 Court Magician

The Magician of Tiger Castle 88%

A Renaissance magician must erase a princess's love for a scribe before the wedding banquet.

by Louis Sachar 2025

3.53

9k+ ratings

🏛️ Renaissance Fantasy 🏰 Court Intrigue 🧙 Court Magician

Interview with the Vampire

by Anne Rice • 1976

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

4.02

656k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire

Interview with the Vampire 88%

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

by Anne Rice 1976

4.02

656k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North • 2014

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

4.03

101k+

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Summary

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 88%

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

by Claire North 2014

4.03

101k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden

The Vampire Lestat

by Anne Rice • 1985

A vampire wakes in 1980s New Orleans and decides rock stardom beats eternal secrecy.

4.11

219k+

📖 Literary Horror 🩸 Vampire Antihero 💔 Tragic Queer Love

The Vampire Lestat 88%

A vampire wakes in 1980s New Orleans and decides rock stardom beats eternal secrecy.

by Anne Rice 1985

4.11

219k+ ratings

📖 Literary Horror 🩸 Vampire Antihero 💔 Tragic Queer Love

Dracul

by Dacre Stoker • 2018

Before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker was saved by a nanny who slept in earth.

4.14

19k+

🏚️ Irish Gothic 📜 Epistolary Horror 🩸 Tragic Vampire

Dracul 88%

Before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker was saved by a nanny who slept in earth.

by Dacre Stoker 2018

4.14

19k+ ratings

🏚️ Irish Gothic 📜 Epistolary Horror 🩸 Tragic Vampire

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab • 2020

For three hundred years, no one remembers her. Then a stranger says her name.

4.16

1.5M+

🖤 Faustian Bargain 🌑 Dark God Romance 🎨 Artist And Muse

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Summary

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 87%

For three hundred years, no one remembers her. Then a stranger says her name.

by V.E. Schwab 2020

4.16

1.5M+ ratings

🖤 Faustian Bargain 🌑 Dark God Romance 🎨 Artist And Muse

How to Stop Time

by Matt Haig • 2017

A 400-year-old history teacher is forbidden to love. His new colleague makes him break the rule.

3.82

225k+

🧬 Ageless Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Society ⏳💕 Love Across Time

How to Stop Time 87%

A 400-year-old history teacher is forbidden to love. His new colleague makes him break the rule.

by Matt Haig 2017

3.82

225k+ ratings

🧬 Ageless Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Society ⏳💕 Love Across Time

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

by V.E. Schwab • 2025

Three women, five centuries, one vampire's promise: you are mine forever, and forever is a cage.

3.88

218k+

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🦇 Vampire Gothic 💔 Toxic Immortal Love

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil Summary

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 87%

Three women, five centuries, one vampire's promise: you are mine forever, and forever is a cage.

by V.E. Schwab 2025

3.88

218k+ ratings

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🦇 Vampire Gothic 💔 Toxic Immortal Love

Slow Gods

by Claire North • 2025

A debtor survives a procedure that should kill him. An ancient machine warns the galaxy will burn.

4.00

5k+

🚀 Philosophical Space Opera 👤 Immortal Outsider 🌌 Elegiac

Slow Gods 87%

A debtor survives a procedure that should kill him. An ancient machine warns the galaxy will burn.

by Claire North 2025

4.00

5k+ ratings

🚀 Philosophical Space Opera 👤 Immortal Outsider 🌌 Elegiac

Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

by Anne Rice • 2016

Vampire prince Lestat's spirit recalls Atlantis. Its survivors surface with the truth of his kind.

3.80

10k+

🕯️ Gothic Horror 🧬 Science Fantasy 🩸 Vampire Origin Myth

Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis Summary

Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis 87%

Vampire prince Lestat's spirit recalls Atlantis. Its survivors surface with the truth of his kind.

by Anne Rice 2016

3.80

10k+ ratings

🕯️ Gothic Horror 🧬 Science Fantasy 🩸 Vampire Origin Myth

Clockwork Princess

by Cassandra Clare • 2013

Her fiancé is dying. His best friend secretly loves her. The cure demands her surrender.

4.55

479k+

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle

Clockwork Princess 87%

Her fiancé is dying. His best friend secretly loves her. The cure demands her surrender.

by Cassandra Clare 2013

4.55

479k+ ratings

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle

Healer

by F. Paul Wilson • 1976

An alien in his mind grants a surveyor healing, immortality, and the loneliness of centuries.

4.19

596

🧬 Alien Symbiosis 🙏 Reluctant Messiah ⏳ Immortal Protagonist

Healer 87%

An alien in his mind grants a surveyor healing, immortality, and the loneliness of centuries.

by F. Paul Wilson 1976

4.19

596 ratings

🧬 Alien Symbiosis 🙏 Reluctant Messiah ⏳ Immortal Protagonist

Ashes of Man

by Christopher Ruocchio • 2022

A broken hero returns to an empire as an alien prophet unites the enemy for annihilation.

4.48

16k+

🚀 Military Space Opera ✨ Science Fantasy 😔 Survivor Guilt

Ashes of Man 87%

A broken hero returns to an empire as an alien prophet unites the enemy for annihilation.

by Christopher Ruocchio 2022

4.48

16k+ ratings

🚀 Military Space Opera ✨ Science Fantasy 😔 Survivor Guilt

The Magnificence of Death

by Rhea Rainwater • 2025

A mother cheats Death, so Death takes her husband, then courts her through the ages.

3.95

2k+

💀 Death Personified 🕯️ Generational Curse ⏳ Immortal Heroine

The Magnificence of Death 87%

A mother cheats Death, so Death takes her husband, then courts her through the ages.

by Rhea Rainwater 2025

3.95

2k+ ratings

💀 Death Personified 🕯️ Generational Curse ⏳ Immortal Heroine

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati • 1940

A young officer at a remote fort waits a lifetime for a battle that never comes.

4.20

43k+

🏰 Existential Allegory ⏳ Wasted Life 🇮🇹 Italian Modernism

The Tartar Steppe 87%

A young officer at a remote fort waits a lifetime for a battle that never comes.

by Dino Buzzati 1940

4.20

43k+ ratings

🏰 Existential Allegory ⏳ Wasted Life 🇮🇹 Italian Modernism

Howling Dark

by Christopher Ruocchio • 2019

An exiled lord leads mercenaries into dark space, seeking a world to end the alien war.

4.34

29k+

🌑 Dark Space Opera ⚗️ Science Fantasy Blend 👑 Immortal Tyrant

Howling Dark 87%

An exiled lord leads mercenaries into dark space, seeking a world to end the alien war.

by Christopher Ruocchio 2019

4.34

29k+ ratings

🌑 Dark Space Opera ⚗️ Science Fantasy Blend 👑 Immortal Tyrant

The Book of Elsewhere

by Keanu Reeves • 2024

He cannot die, but the parts his captors cut from him are learning to live.

3.30

10k+

🔫 Military Fantasy 🧠 Cerebral Fantasy ⚔️ Immortal Warrior

The Book of Elsewhere 87%

He cannot die, but the parts his captors cut from him are learning to live.

by Keanu Reeves 2024

3.30

10k+ ratings

🔫 Military Fantasy 🧠 Cerebral Fantasy ⚔️ Immortal Warrior

Thirst No. 1

by Christopher Pike • 1998

A five-thousand-year-old vampire has one rule: leave no witnesses. A detective just became one.

3.86

37k+

🧛 90s Vampire Fiction 🩸 Ancient Vampire 💔 Immortal Loneliness

Thirst No. 1 87%

A five-thousand-year-old vampire has one rule: leave no witnesses. A detective just became one.

by Christopher Pike 1998

3.86

37k+ ratings

🧛 90s Vampire Fiction 🩸 Ancient Vampire 💔 Immortal Loneliness

Memnoch the Devil

by Anne Rice • 1995

A vampire follows the Devil through Creation, then must decide whose side he is on.

3.76

87k+

🧠 Philosophical Horror 😈 Sympathetic Devil ⛪ Theological Fantasy

Memnoch the Devil 87%

A vampire follows the Devil through Creation, then must decide whose side he is on.

by Anne Rice 1995

3.76

87k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophical Horror 😈 Sympathetic Devil ⛪ Theological Fantasy

The Devil's Concubine

by Ángeles Goyanes • 2011

Saved by a fallen angel, a crusade orphan discovers eternal life is a slow-motion execution.

3.82

471

🖤 Fallen Angel Romance 💀 Cursed Immortality 🔄 Soul Transfer

The Devil's Concubine 87%

Saved by a fallen angel, a crusade orphan discovers eternal life is a slow-motion execution.

by Ángeles Goyanes 2011

3.82

471 ratings

🖤 Fallen Angel Romance 💀 Cursed Immortality 🔄 Soul Transfer

The Light of All That Falls

by James Islington • 2019

A guilty immortal, a soldier trapped in time, and an outcast must break fate's cycle.

4.40

42k+

🔄 Predestination Paradox 🖤 Immortal Atonement 🕰️ Time Prison

The Light of All That Falls 87%

A guilty immortal, a soldier trapped in time, and an outcast must break fate's cycle.

by James Islington 2019

4.40

42k+ ratings

🔄 Predestination Paradox 🖤 Immortal Atonement 🕰️ Time Prison

A Short Stay in Hell

by Steven L. Peck • 2011

After death, a man faces an infinite library. To escape Hell, he must find the book of his life.

4.15

70k+

🧠 Philosophical Horror 👻 Afterlife Horror 🔢 Mathematical Horror

A Short Stay in Hell 87%

After death, a man faces an infinite library. To escape Hell, he must find the book of his life.

by Steven L. Peck 2011

4.15

70k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophical Horror 👻 Afterlife Horror 🔢 Mathematical Horror

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

by James Malcolm Rymer • 1845

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

3.40

2k+

🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood Summary

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood 87%

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

by James Malcolm Rymer 1845

3.40

2k+ ratings

🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse

The Diary Of A Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev • 1850

A dying nobleman chronicles a life of watching, never daring, forever unnecessary.

3.84

4k+

📜 Russian Classic 📔 Confessional Diary 💔 Unrequited Love

The Diary Of A Superfluous Man 87%

A dying nobleman chronicles a life of watching, never daring, forever unnecessary.

by Ivan Turgenev 1850

3.84

4k+ ratings

📜 Russian Classic 📔 Confessional Diary 💔 Unrequited Love

Im Schatten der Wahrheit

by Merit Niemeitz • 2023

A Cambridge student falls for an immortal body thief while investigating his deadly secret society.

3.79

1k+

🖤 Dark Academia 🕯️ Secret Society 🐦 Body Hopping

Im Schatten der Wahrheit 87%

A Cambridge student falls for an immortal body thief while investigating his deadly secret society.

by Merit Niemeitz 2023

3.79

1k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 🕯️ Secret Society 🐦 Body Hopping

Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami • 1987

Best friend's suicide traps a Tokyo student between a fading woman and one pulling him back.

3.99

739k+

🖤 Melancholy Romance 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 🕯️ Grief And Intimacy

Norwegian Wood 86%

Best friend's suicide traps a Tokyo student between a fading woman and one pulling him back.

by Haruki Murakami 1987

3.99

739k+ ratings

🖤 Melancholy Romance 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 🕯️ Grief And Intimacy

The Witch's Daughter

by Paula Brackston • 2008

Her neighbor is a four-hundred-year-old witch. And the warlock who made her has returned.

3.66

44k+

🖤 Immortal Witch 🪵 Witch Trials 🌿 Healing Magic

The Witch's Daughter 86%

Her neighbor is a four-hundred-year-old witch. And the warlock who made her has returned.

by Paula Brackston 2008

3.66

44k+ ratings

🖤 Immortal Witch 🪵 Witch Trials 🌿 Healing Magic

Broken April by Ismail Kadare

by Ismail Kadare • 1978

After a blood killing, a mountaineer has thirty days before the ancient code demands his life.

4.00

9k+

🩸 Blood Feud ⚰️ Doomed Protagonist 🥀 Impossible Longing

Broken April by Ismail Kadare 86%

After a blood killing, a mountaineer has thirty days before the ancient code demands his life.

by Ismail Kadare 1978

4.00

9k+ ratings

🩸 Blood Feud ⚰️ Doomed Protagonist 🥀 Impossible Longing

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville • 1853

A Wall Street lawyer hires a quiet scrivener who stops working and will not say why.

3.93

77k+

🏢 Office Monotony 🤫 Quiet Defiance 🖤 Existential Despair

Bartleby the Scrivener 86%

A Wall Street lawyer hires a quiet scrivener who stops working and will not say why.

by Herman Melville 1853

3.93

77k+ ratings

🏢 Office Monotony 🤫 Quiet Defiance 🖤 Existential Despair

Hector and the Search for Lost Time

by François Lelord • 2006

A psychiatrist follows a vanished monk to the Arctic, searching for why life feels too short.

3.65

1k+

🦊 Philosophical Fable ⏳ Aging And Mortality 🔄 Midlife Reflection

Hector and the Search for Lost Time Summary

Hector and the Search for Lost Time 86%

A psychiatrist follows a vanished monk to the Arctic, searching for why life feels too short.

by François Lelord 2006

3.65

1k+ ratings

🦊 Philosophical Fable ⏳ Aging And Mortality 🔄 Midlife Reflection

The Fall of Gondolin

by J.R.R. Tolkien • 2018

A sea god's warning sends a mortal to Gondolin, a hidden city too proud to listen.

4.09

18k+

🏛️ Mythic Fantasy 🏙️ Hidden City 💞 Mortal Immortal Love

The Fall of Gondolin 86%

A sea god's warning sends a mortal to Gondolin, a hidden city too proud to listen.

by J.R.R. Tolkien 2018

4.09

18k+ ratings

🏛️ Mythic Fantasy 🏙️ Hidden City 💞 Mortal Immortal Love

The Queen of the Damned

by Anne Rice • 1988

A vampire rock star wakes the ancient queen, who decides humanity needs a cleansing.

3.93

163k+

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🩸 Ancestral Curse 👁️ Psychic Visions

The Queen of the Damned 86%

A vampire rock star wakes the ancient queen, who decides humanity needs a cleansing.

by Anne Rice 1988

3.93

163k+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🩸 Ancestral Curse 👁️ Psychic Visions

The Red Winter

by Cameron Sullivan • 2026

An immortal magician hunts the Beast that stole his lover and now curses their son.

3.98

8k+

🖤 Doomed Queer Love 🔥 Inner Demon 🐺 Monstrous Transformation

The Red Winter 86%

An immortal magician hunts the Beast that stole his lover and now curses their son.

by Cameron Sullivan 2026

3.98

8k+ ratings

🖤 Doomed Queer Love 🔥 Inner Demon 🐺 Monstrous Transformation

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1877

A solitary Petersburg dreamer meets a woman by the canal and gambles everything on love.

4.23

4k+

🖤 Existential Fiction 💔 Unrequited Love 🌙 Chance Encounter

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky 86%

A solitary Petersburg dreamer meets a woman by the canal and gambles everything on love.

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877

4.23

4k+ ratings

🖤 Existential Fiction 💔 Unrequited Love 🌙 Chance Encounter

The Red Lion

by Mária Szepes • 1946

An alchemist murders his master for immortality. The stolen elixir becomes an unending curse.

4.47

1k+

🧪 Alchemical Journey 🔄 Reincarnation Cycle ⏳ Curse Of Immortality

The Red Lion 86%

An alchemist murders his master for immortality. The stolen elixir becomes an unending curse.

by Mária Szepes 1946

4.47

1k+ ratings

🧪 Alchemical Journey 🔄 Reincarnation Cycle ⏳ Curse Of Immortality

Silver in the Wood

by Emily Tesh • 2019

An ancient forest guardian falls for a folklore scholar, but the equinox stirs a hungry spirit.

3.98

24k+

🌳 Mythic Woodland 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🌙 Lyrical Fantasy

Silver in the Wood 86%

An ancient forest guardian falls for a folklore scholar, but the equinox stirs a hungry spirit.

by Emily Tesh 2019

3.98

24k+ ratings

🌳 Mythic Woodland 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🌙 Lyrical Fantasy

The Poet's Guide to Life

by Rainer Maria Rilke • 2005

Rilke's letters become a field guide: how to turn solitude and loss into a deeper life.

4.12

368

📜 Wisdom Literature ✉️ Letter Collections 🧘 Solitude

The Poet's Guide to Life 86%

Rilke's letters become a field guide: how to turn solitude and loss into a deeper life.

by Rainer Maria Rilke 2005

4.12

368 ratings

📜 Wisdom Literature ✉️ Letter Collections 🧘 Solitude

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

by Anne de Marcken • 2024

An undead woman keeps a crow inside her chest, forgetting everything but who she loved.

3.61

20k+

🖤 Undead Grief 🚪 Liminal Spaces 🐦 Metaphor Made Literal

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over Summary

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over 86%

An undead woman keeps a crow inside her chest, forgetting everything but who she loved.

by Anne de Marcken 2024

3.61

20k+ ratings

🖤 Undead Grief 🚪 Liminal Spaces 🐦 Metaphor Made Literal

Anima Rising

by Christopher Moore • 2025

Frankenstein's bride washes up in Vienna with no memory and becomes Klimt's most dangerous muse.

4.05

6k+

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🕰️ Immortal Woman 🎨 Artist And Muse

Anima Rising 86%

Frankenstein's bride washes up in Vienna with no memory and becomes Klimt's most dangerous muse.

by Christopher Moore 2025

4.05

6k+ ratings

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🕰️ Immortal Woman 🎨 Artist And Muse

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy • 1895

A stonemason dreams of Oxford, but love for his cousin and a cruel marriage ruin him.

3.84

76k+

❤️ Forbidden Love 🎓 Thwarted Ambition 💍 Marriage Critique

Jude the Obscure 86%

A stonemason dreams of Oxford, but love for his cousin and a cruel marriage ruin him.

by Thomas Hardy 1895

3.84

76k+ ratings

❤️ Forbidden Love 🎓 Thwarted Ambition 💍 Marriage Critique

The Name of the World

by Denis Johnson • 2000

A grieving professor perfects the art of being unseen, until a bold young cellist demands otherwise.

3.55

3k+

🏛️ Campus Novel 💔 Widower Protagonist 🌧️ Quiet Melancholy

The Name of the World 86%

A grieving professor perfects the art of being unseen, until a bold young cellist demands otherwise.

by Denis Johnson 2000

3.55

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Campus Novel 💔 Widower Protagonist 🌧️ Quiet Melancholy

Elric of Melniboné

by Michael Moorcock • 1972

Drowned by his cousin, a frail sorcerer-emperor bargains with Chaos to reclaim his stolen throne.

3.88

31k+

⚔️ Sword And Sorcery 💀 Tragic Antihero 🗡️ Sentient Weapon

Elric of Melniboné 86%

Drowned by his cousin, a frail sorcerer-emperor bargains with Chaos to reclaim his stolen throne.

by Michael Moorcock 1972

3.88

31k+ ratings

⚔️ Sword And Sorcery 💀 Tragic Antihero 🗡️ Sentient Weapon

Thornhedge

by T. Kingfisher • 2023

A fairy's centuries-long vigil: the princess in the tower must never wake.

3.92

65k+

🧚 Subverted Fairy Tale 🌹 Sleeping Beauty Retelling 🐸 Changeling Protagonist

Thornhedge 86%

A fairy's centuries-long vigil: the princess in the tower must never wake.

by T. Kingfisher 2023

3.92

65k+ ratings

🧚 Subverted Fairy Tale 🌹 Sleeping Beauty Retelling 🐸 Changeling Protagonist

The Broken Kingdoms

by N.K. Jemisin • 2010

A blind artist who sees magic shelters a wounded god while a killer hunts immortals.

4.14

40k+

🖤 Fallen God 🏛️ God Politics 💫 Mortal And Divine Love

The Broken Kingdoms 86%

A blind artist who sees magic shelters a wounded god while a killer hunts immortals.

by N.K. Jemisin 2010

4.14

40k+ ratings

🖤 Fallen God 🏛️ God Politics 💫 Mortal And Divine Love

Mr Salary

by Sally Rooney • 2016

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

3.73

43k+

📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction

Mr Salary 86%

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

by Sally Rooney 2016

3.73

43k+ ratings

📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction

The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald • 1995

In 1790s Saxony, a restless philosopher sees his soul's answer in a twelve-year-old girl.

3.44

7k+

🖋️ Biographical Novel 🌹 German Romanticism 💭 Idealized Love

The Blue Flower 86%

In 1790s Saxony, a restless philosopher sees his soul's answer in a twelve-year-old girl.

by Penelope Fitzgerald 1995

3.44

7k+ ratings

🖋️ Biographical Novel 🌹 German Romanticism 💭 Idealized Love

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer • 2005

Bella Swan falls for a beautiful stranger whose century of control shatters at her scent.

3.68

7.4M+

🧛 Vampire Romance ⏳ Immortal Loves Mortal 🌧️ Gothic Rainy Atmosphere

Twilight 86%

Bella Swan falls for a beautiful stranger whose century of control shatters at her scent.

by Stephenie Meyer 2005

3.68

7.4M+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Romance ⏳ Immortal Loves Mortal 🌧️ Gothic Rainy Atmosphere

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