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A masterclass in charm and resilience, inviting you to sip fine wine and find an entire world within the walls of a single grand hotel. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with A Gentleman in Moscow.
- cozy
- nostalgic
- opulent
- bittersweet
- 01
Rules of Civility
Amor Towles
A sparkling, martini-dry plunge into 1930s Manhattan society, where ambition and chance collide in a haze of jazz and cigarette smoke.
- 02
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
A sprawling, sun-drenched American road trip that balances youthful optimism with the sobering realities of fate and consequence.
- 03
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
A sweeping, time-bending love letter to the enduring power of stories and the fragile beauty of the world.
- 04
City of thieves
David Benioff
A brutally cold, darkly hilarious, and ultimately heartbreaking sprint through a war-torn wasteland in search of the impossible.
- 05
The tsar of love and techno
Anthony Marra
A darkly funny, deeply humane tapestry of interconnected lives surviving the absurdities and tragedies of a fractured empire.
- 06
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
A quiet, sunlit meditation on devotion and what it truly means to possess a human heart, told through the earnest eyes of an artificial being.
- 07
Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett
A sweeping, mud-spattered epic of ambition and survival that plunges you into the brutal dawn of the Middle Ages.
- 08
The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel
A masterful, shadow-drenched immersion into the mind of a brilliant man navigating his own inevitable doom.
- 09
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
A lush, defiant love letter to the magic of storytelling and the hidden thresholds that lead us to where we belong.
- 10
At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie · 2006
A perfectly preserved slice of Edwardian luxury where the tea is hot, the muffins are buttered, and the guests are hiding deadly secrets.
- 11
The Russia house
John le Carré · 1989
A world-weary exploration of loyalty and love set against the crumbling, shadowed backdrop of the late Cold War.
- 12
Red Plenty
Francis Spufford
A brilliant, tragicomic exploration of a doomed utopia, where the magic of mathematics collides with the messy reality of human nature.
