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Books like The passion
A fever dream of frozen landscapes and labyrinthine canals where love is a gamble that costs you your heart. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The passion.
- dreamlike
- surreal
- wintry
- carnival-esque
- haunting
- 01
Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson · 1998
A feverish, poetic meditation on the anatomy of desire and the devastating physical weight of losing the one you love.
- 02
Possession
A. S. Byatt
A lush, brainy treasure hunt through dusty archives that blooms into an epic, time-spanning romance.
- 03
The Grand Passion
Elizabeth Mansfield · 1986
A bittersweet, elegant dance of vengeance and vulnerability where a broken heart accidentally finds its greatest love.
- 04
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
A sweeping, devastating journey from the intoxicating heights of forbidden passion to the claustrophobic, muddy horrors of the Western Front.
- 05
Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson · 2005
An atmospheric, nested tale of isolation and connection, anchored by the mesmerizing power of shared stories in a windswept lighthouse.
- 06
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles · 1977
A lush, postmodern subversion of the Victorian romance that plays games with the reader's heart and mind.
- 07
Passion simple
Annie Ernaux
A surgically precise, unsentimental dissection of an all-consuming romantic obsession.
- 08
Where Passion Leads
Lisa Kleypas
A sweeping, sensual journey through aristocratic danger and breathless romantic awakening.
- 09
English Rose
Jacqueline Marten
A spirited clash of wills gives way to sweeping, destined romance against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 10
Blades of Passion
Claudette Williams
A tempestuous Regency romance fueled by undeniable attraction, scandalous secrets, and breathless drama.
- 11
A knight's passion
Kohl, Candice.
A sweeping medieval romance fueled by the delicious, forbidden tension of falling for the one person you are sworn to deliver to someone else.
- 12
Shadowheart
Laura Kinsale · 2004
A dark, intensely psychological medieval romance that explores the razor-thin line between obsessive possession and soul-saving love.
