Books like Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Never Let Me Go is a contemplative study of friendship, identity, and the ethical limits of science as it follows the lives of a group of students growing up in a quiet English boarding school.

In 1935 England, a young woman’s allegation of a crime sets off a chain of events that devastates families, alters lives during the Second World War, and echoes into a later life of remorse and reflection.

In 1983 London, twenty‑year‑old Nick Guest, a recent Oxford graduate, becomes entangled in the lavish, politically charged world of MP Gerald Feddens, his wife Rachel, and their family, discovering love, ambition, and the temptations of an era in sharp, humor‑laden prose.

A Dublin detective returns to his hometown’s Faithful Place after a decades‑old missing‑person case pulls his former lover’s suitcase into his life, and he must confront family, crime, and loyalty to uncover the truth.

Set in July 1962, 'On Chesil Beach' follows newlyweds Florence, a budding musician, and Edward, a history student, as they confront anxieties and unmet expectations during their honeymoon on the Dorset coast.

An American teacher discovers her own amnesia while being swept into a romance with a dashing English earl amid a fateful accident and a tangled web of love and mystery.

Michael Cunningham’s lyrical novel weaves Virginia Woolf’s final days with contemporary tales of love, inheritance, hope, and despair, centering on poet Richard and his friend Clarissa as they navigate fame and personal fulfillment.

Reena Hale, a seasoned arson investigator in Baltimore, battles a series of mysterious fires and harassing calls while courting a new love interest, Bo Goodnight, as she hunts for the truth behind her past and present threats.

Two old friends—Britain’s leading composer Clive Linley and seasoned editor Vernon Halliday—reconnect at Molly Lane’s funeral and make a pact that will upend their morals, friendship and the nation’s political future.

A British woman falls in love with, marries, and terrorizes a famous mountaineer, discovering that her fears may be true as three women in his life die in accidents.

The Memorial follows the unraveling of an English family in the aftermath of World War I, drawing on Christopher Isherwood’s own experiences.

A British couple vacationing in Italy becomes entangled with another couple, leading to a psychological exploration of love, violence, and dread.

If a middle‑aged woman is hanged for murder, who would have known her tragic past? Ruth Rendell’s Barbara Vine novel dissects a family’s buried secrets, exploring the slow descent into violence and control.

Dennis Lehane’s gritty Boston detective novel follows private investigator Patrick Kenzie as he hunts a sadistic stalker behind a woman’s death, confronting a psychopath that the law can’t touch.

In Uncle Silas, a 17‑year‑old orphan is thrust into a web of family betrayal when her guardian plans to murder her for her fortune.

Annie O'Sullivan, a 32‑year‑old realtor in British Columbia, is abducted during an open house and later frees herself from a remote mountain cabin, confronting trauma, police inquiry and her own path to self‑realization.

Psychologist Kit Quinn, after a brutal attack, is drawn into a series of murders that force her to confront her deepest fears while unraveling a sinister conspiracy.

Three Junes follows a Scottish family across three summers, exploring love, loss, and identity as father, sons, and a Greek‑inspired artist grapple with grief, secrets, and new romances.

In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earlier formulations like "sexual inversion" and "sodomy"? What part does literature play in the development of such categories, or in a culture's resistance to them? And what are the implications for the creation and maintenance of the presumed "natural" male heterosexual subject? How has male heterosexual subjectivity been established as a bulwark against the attractions of a homosexual desire that is repeatedly incited by the very culture that condemns it? Craft examines the discourses of nineteenth-century psychiatry and sexology; some of Freud's central writings; and Tennyson's In Memoriam, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Stoker's Dracula, and Lawrence's Women In Love.

The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue she ended the relationship. Years later he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.