shelfthreads
Books like…

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

1950s Paris: an American man torn between his fiancée and an Italian bartender

  • Classics
  • Melancholic
  • Heartbreaking
  • Forbidden love
  • Big city
  • Slow & immersive
  • Short read

Top picks

No picks yet.

Also try

Books this one was picked for.

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Sabahattin Ali

A shy Turkish clerk in 1920s Berlin keeps returning to a haunting self-portrait, until he meets the woman who painted it

5 picks

On shelves