Books like Hombre sentimental by Javier Marías

A dark, passionate tale set on the West Yorkshire moors, following the tumultuous love and revenge between the Earnshaws, Lintons, and the enigmatic Heathcliff.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

A Booker Prize-winning tale of two young scholars uncovering a hidden web of letters, poems and romance between Victorian poets, blending intellectual mystery with a passionate love story.

Don Finch, a genetics researcher with Asperger's, navigates new fatherhood, marriage, and professional chaos when his wife Rosie unexpectedly becomes pregnant, forcing him to balance science, love, and the demands of a bustling New York life.

An experimental novel by William Faulkner that tells the same events from four distinct perspectives, each with a unique narrative style, charting the decline of a once‑wealthy Southern family.

Shy, witty David Federman arrives at Harvard hoping to join like‑minded peers, but finds himself craving acceptance, love, and a place in an elite Upper East Side circle, all while grappling with his own morals.

Four young musicians forge a familial bond through shared talent and secrets, navigating ambition, passion, and love in a cutthroat world where their relationships both strengthen and fracture their growing lives.

A memoir‑style tale of a boy’s one summer at an English country estate, where he befriends a farmer and becomes an inadvertent messenger between the farmer and the host’s daughter, with whom he harbours a youthful crush.

Maria Dolz’s routine breakfast break turns into a grim mystery when a woman‑watching couple disappears, and a newspaper photo reveals one of them dead in the street.

In a decaying Venetian villa, an unnamed collector cracks under the lure of the unpublished papers of the late poet Jeffrey Aspern, risking friendship and morality to claim the writer’s most intimate secrets.

A Swedish nurse falls into a passionate, forbidden affair with a senior doctor, struggling with power imbalance, personal ambition, and an unexpected secret that forces her to define her own destiny.

Catherine Vernon, a powerful banker who has watched a love burn in her youth, faces resistance from her sharp‑witted relative Hester and her favored young man Edward in the heat of conflict between generations.

Over five novels and two collections of stories Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts, and been compared with Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. In her new novel three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past - their mother took them there when she left their father - but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions. Roland has come with his new wife and his sisters don't like her. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice's ex-boyfriend, makes plans to seduce Molly, Roland's teenage daughter. Fran's children uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Passion erupts where it's least expected, blasting the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the oldest sister. A way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its inevitable end. With uncanny precision and extraordinary sympathy, Tessa Hadley charts the squalls of lust and envy disrupting this ill-assorted house party, as well as the consolations of memory and affection, the beauty of the natural world, the shifting of history under the social surface. From the first page the reader is absorbed and enthralled, watching a superb craftsman at work --

After a fatal plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer is haunted by grief until he discovers a lost silent‑film comedy starring Hector Mann. Obsessed with the vanished star, Zimmer’s search drives him into a dreamlike world of lies, revelations, and unexpected 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.