Here are the bestselling fiction titles from the New York Times for the week of July 19, 2015. If you are among the thousands who read and enjoyed these books, and you want to repeat that feeling of suspense or romance, here are a few read alikes to keep you going. Enjoy!

 

#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Grey by E.L. James, more novels about sexual dominance and submission:

The Lover  by Marguerite Duras

Henry and June  by Anais Nin

The Key  by Junʼichirō Tanizaki

 

 

 

#2 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The English Spy by Daniel Silva, more art theft real and imagined:

Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist by Stephen Kurkjian

Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm

Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe

 

 

 

#3 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, more suspense novels told from multiple perspectives:

And Then There Was One by Patricia Gussin

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Son by Jo Nesbø

 

 

 

 

#4 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed A New Hope by Robyn Carr, more small town romances:

Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees

 

 

 

#5 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, more titles with blind protagonists.

Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow

How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt