Find Similar Books

Books like Returning by Edna O’Brien

Name: Returning
Author: Edna O’Brien

📘 Returning by Edna O’Brien

First publish date: 1982

Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction

Authors: Edna O’Brien

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 0.0 (0 community ratings)

All books by Edna O’Brien

How are these books recommended?

The books recommended for Returning by Edna O’Brien are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.

Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.

Books similar to Returning (16 similar books)

📘 The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

A dystopian novel about a woman named Offred in a totalitarian theonomic society called Gilead, exploring themes of subjugated women and resistance.

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (96 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like The Handmaid's Tale

📘 A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life follows four college friends in New York as they confront trauma, love and the enduring scars of their pasts, weaving themes of friendship, family, and identity into a profound coming‑of‑age story.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (78 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like A Little Life

📘 Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston’s Pulitzer‑winning novel follows Janie Crawford’s journey of self‑discovery and empowerment, mapping her search for love, independence, and identity against the backdrop of the African‑American South during the early 20th century.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (38 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Their Eyes Were Watching God

📘 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

A son writes an unabridged, eloquent letter to his ill‑literate mother, uncovering her Vietnamese‑American family history and confronting themes of race, class, masculinity, trauma and LGBTQ identity.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (25 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

📘 Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

Twelve Black British women and people of diverse identities share intertwined stories across Britain, revealing family ties, love, and social change.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (9 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Girl, Woman, Other

📘 Passing

by Nella Larsen

Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing explores the life of Irene Redfield, a married Harlem woman whose world is disrupted when her childhood friend Clare Kendry—now passing as white—reappears.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (9 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Passing

📘 Born in Shame

by Nora Roberts

Graphical artist Shannon Bodine discovers her true father and an unexpected homeland in County Clare, where she finds love, family, and a sense of belonging amidst Ireland’s lush mysticism.

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.7 (7 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Born in Shame