Books like A Farewell to Arms

01

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque · History

All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.

A kindred literary fiction read.

02

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway · Memoir

A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.

A kindred literary fiction read.

03

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien · Memoir

Tim O'Brien served as a foot soldier in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970.

A kindred literary fiction read.

04

Dispatches

Michael Herr · Memoir

Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a correspondent for Esquire in 1967 and spent eighteen months embedded with Marine and Army units before the experience broke him psychologically.

A kindred literary fiction read.

05

The Bromance Book Club

Lyssa Kay Adams · Romance

The Bromance Book Club centers on Gavin Scott, a professional baseball player whose wife Thea has just told him their marriage is over.

Both dig into masculinity and vulnerability.

06

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green · Contemporary fiction

Hazel Grace Lancaster is sixteen, has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs, and attends a cancer support group mostly to appease her parents.

Both dig into love and loss.

07

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · Philosophy

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote The Little Prince in New York in 1942, in exile from a France under occupation, and the book was published in French and English simultaneously in 1943, the year before he disappeared on a reconnaissance flight.

Both dig into love and loss.

08

The Seven Year Slip

Ashley Poston · Romance

Clementine inherits her aunt's apartment in New York City — an apartment with a particular enchantment: it occasionally slips into the past.

Both dig into love and loss.

09

The Simple Wild

K.A. Tucker · Contemporary fiction

The Simple Wild follows Calla Fletcher, a Toronto-based woman who has grown up estranged from her father Wren, a bush pilot living in rural Alaska.

Both dig into love and loss.

10

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry · Literary fiction

A Fine Balance is set in an unnamed Indian city during Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975–1977, a period of suspended democracy, forced sterilization, and slum clearances that is barely taught in the West and barely taught in India.

A kindred literary fiction read.

11

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · Literary fiction

A Little Life follows four men from college into middle age and beyond — Willem, an actor; JB, a painter; Malcolm, an architect; and Jude, a lawyer with a past that is revealed in increasingly devastating detail as the novel progresses.

A kindred literary fiction read.

12

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce · Literary fiction

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus from early childhood to the edge of adulthood, when he leaves Ireland to pursue life as an artist.

A kindred literary fiction read.