What would you recommend....? (author, stories, publish, favorite)

[ellaroo]

I very much liked the book Atonement! What books would you recommend that are similair to Ian McEwan's wonderful masterpiece?

[Jess5]

Sorry ellaroo,I haven't read it because its my understanding that its a love story, and I don't read love stories. I know someone on here has read it tho. Hopefully, they'll see your thread.

[TeaJay]

These books were suggested by http://whatshouldireadnext.com Hope this helps!
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (For a Year) by an Ocean - Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery
Tess of the Durbervilles - Thomas Hardy, Nina Pelikan Straus
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
The Puttermesser Papers - Cynthia Ozick
Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth
The Flood - David Maine
Metroland - Julian Barnes
A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr

[RDSLOTS]

Ella, sometimes, when I especially like a work, I'll try yet another of the author's works. Hasn't Ian McEwan since published two more?

I like a French author -- Marguerite Dumas -- who writes interesting/different love stories. One of my favorites years ago had to do with a sailor, and another was an older man who becomes entranced with a beautiful young girl.