Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Call Me by Your Name is a novel of summer and suspension — a 17-year-old boy at a Lombardy villa, an older scholar who arrives and changes everything, and a brief season whose pull refuses to diminish. It signals a taste for stories where desire catches people off guard, where setting becomes inseparable from feeling, and where coming-of-age means confronting something that cannot be undone. Readers drawn to it tend to want the same across other media: intimacy rendered with precision, and the particular ache of a connection that leaves its mark.
Call Me by Your Name is a 2007 coming-of-age novel written by Italian-American writer André Aciman. Set in the 1980s, the novel centers on the sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between student Elio Perlman and visiting American scholar Oliver, chronicling their relationship and the 20 years that follow. In 2017, it was adapted into a critically acclaimed film of the same name. A sequel, Find Me, was released in October 2019.
From the Wikipedia article Call_Me_by_Your_Name_(novel), available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Call Me by Your Name
The same 1983 Italian summer, the same two people — the film renders the novel's world directly.
Film
Eros
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality, one segment set on the Tuscan coast, another in an executive's psyche.
Film
Hawaii
A summer of labor turns into something more as power and desire quietly transform a childhood friendship.
Film
The Summer Book
A summer house holds two people at opposite ends of life, the relationship between them carrying everything.
Film
Imagine Me & You
An instant, wordless pull toward a stranger sets off a reckoning with desire that disrupts a settled life.
Film
Summertime
A solitary woman travels to Venice and finally meets love — the city itself part of the awakening.
Series
My So-Called Life
Adolescence examined with unflinching honesty — friendship, longing, and the slow work of growing up.
Series
Good Morning Call
Two young people forced into unexpected closeness discover feelings neither anticipated or planned for.
Series
Be with You
A child holds onto a promise made by someone gone, love persisting across the boundary of loss.
Series
A Time Called You
Grief and time collapse as a woman meets someone who carries the face of the person she lost.
Series
Hotman
A found family holds together through its own peculiar bonds, with unasked questions threading every relationship.
Series
I Told Sunset About You
Childhood friends reunite in senior year and find new feelings surfacing in the space between them.
Book
Find Me
The story continues with Elio's father, whose chance encounter on a train opens an unexpected new chapter.
Book
Let's talk about love
A young woman navigates identity and desire, finding love arrives before she believes herself ready for it.
Book
Road To Romance
A guided tour through Italy becomes the backdrop for something unexpected unfolding between its characters.
Book
Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name
A thirteen-year-old travels to find parents who have been absent, carrying questions that need answering.
Book
Adam
A young man sent away from home finds his life changed in ways he could not have foreseen.
Book
The man from Tuscany
A wartime love story set in Italy — two people separated almost immediately after finding each other.
The 2017 film adaptation of Call Me by Your Name is an obvious next step, capturing the same sun-drenched Italian summer and slow-burn longing. I Told Sunset About You offers a similar ache of first love between childhood friends discovering new feelings.
Find Me, the direct sequel by the same author, follows Elio and Oliver's lives in the years after that fateful summer. The Man from Tuscany also delivers an Italian-set romance shaped by separation and the passage of time.
Sepia Tears is a romance visual novel about a buried memory and a bittersweet love story, sharing the novel's reflective, emotionally charged tone — a small but heartfelt pick for fans of quiet, character-driven romance.