Books Like Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go has a specific kind of pull. These books share it — not just the genre, the feeling.

The original

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

Shares both feel and think and both sci-fi/fiction with Never Let Me Go. One of the gentlest, saddest robots in fiction.

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Shares both think and both sci-fi with Never Let Me Go. A dystopia that feels uncomfortably plausible rather than far-off.

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

Shares both feel and both fiction with Never Let Me Go. Quietly devastating in a way that lingers for days after you finish it.

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