Fantasy · Similar reads
Books like A Little Hatred
The best books like A Little Hatred are The Silmarillion, A Darker Shade of Magic, and Blood Meridian. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie is about industrialization and its human cost, class conflict, cynicism and idealism. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Silmarillion
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J.R.R. Tolkien · Fantasy
The Silmarillion is Tolkien's attempt to do for English literature what the Norse Eddas and Finnish Kalevala did for their cultures: create a complete mythology from scratch.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Darker Shade of Magic
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V.E. Schwab · Fantasy
A Darker Shade of Magic is set across four parallel versions of London — Red, Grey, White, and the long-destroyed Black — each existing in the same location but separated by the barriers between worlds.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Blood Meridian
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Cormac McCarthy · Literary fiction
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West is set along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1840s and loosely follows a teenage runaway known only as the kid, who falls in with the Glanton gang — a historical band of scalp hunters hired by the Mexican government to kill Apache raiders.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - War and Peace
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Leo Tolstoy · Literary fiction
War and Peace follows five aristocratic Russian families across fifteen years of Napoleonic war and peace, from the drawing rooms of St.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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N.K. Jemisin · Fantasy
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is the first book in N.K.
Both dig into inheritance and legacy.
Read the summary → - A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · History
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, retells American history from the perspective of those who rarely appear in conventional textbooks: Native Americans, enslaved people, industrial workers, women, immigrants, and dissidents of various kinds.
Both dig into class conflict.
Read the summary → - The Stars My Destination
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Alfred Bester · Science fiction
Gully Foyle is the worst kind of man: stupid, brutal, and totally without ambition — until the day a passing spaceship fails to rescue him from a wrecked hulk where he has survived alone for months.
Both dig into violence and consequence.
Read the summary → - A Court of Mist and Fury
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
Feyre Archeron is nineteen, hunting in winter to feed her family, when she kills a wolf in the forest and is taken by a creature from Prythian — the land of the fae — as payment for a life.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Game of Thrones
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George R.R. Martin · Fantasy
A Game of Thrones is the first volume of George R.R.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Wizard of Earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Fantasy
A Wizard of Earthsea is Ursula K.
A kindred fantasy read.
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Books like A Little Hatred: quick answers
What are the best books like A Little Hatred?
The best books like A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie are The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with A Little Hatred, such as industrialization and its human cost, class conflict, cynicism and idealism.
What should I read after A Little Hatred?
A natural next read after A Little Hatred is The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.
What books are similar to A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie?
A Little Hatred centers on industrialization and its human cost, class conflict, cynicism and idealism. Books with a similar feel include The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
