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Books like A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The best books like A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet are Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, The Things They Carried, and The Alchemist. A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is about found family, cultural difference, belonging and identity. 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.
- Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard · Science
Suzanne Simard is the forest ecologist who discovered that trees communicate and share resources through underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the research that gave rise to the concept of the "mother tree" and, at several removes, Peter Wohlleben's popular writing on the subject.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Things They Carried
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Tim O'Brien · Memoir
Tim O'Brien served as a foot soldier in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood · Science fiction
Snowman — formerly Jimmy — may be the last human being alive.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Happy Place
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Emily Henry · Romance
Harriet and Wyn were the couple everyone else wanted to be.
Both dig into found family.
Read the summary → - Legends & Lattes
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Travis Baldree · Fantasy
Viv is an orc barbarian who has spent decades killing things for coin.
Both dig into found family.
Read the summary → - The Maid
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Nita Prose · Mystery
Molly Gray is a hotel maid at the Regency Grand, and she is exceptionally good at her job.
Both dig into found family.
Read the summary → - The Man Who Knew Infinity
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Robert Kanigel · Biography
Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in 1887 in the South Indian town of Erode into a Brahmin family of modest means, received almost no formal mathematical training, and by his mid-twenties had filled notebooks with thousands of mathematical formulas, many of them original results that professional mathematicians would spend decades verifying.
Both dig into cultural difference.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Fire Upon the Deep
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Vernor Vinge · Science fiction
The galaxy in A Fire Upon the Deep is zoned by the speed of thought: near the galactic core, the Slowness, where intelligence itself is limited; farther out, the Unthinking Depths; and further still, the Transcend, where entities of incomprehensible intelligence emerge and occasionally intervene in the affairs of the merely civilized.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Memory Called Empire
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Arkady Martine · Science fiction
Mahit Dzmare, ambassador from a small, semi-independent mining station to the vast Teixcalaanli Empire, arrives at the capital to find her predecessor has died under suspicious circumstances and the neural implant that was supposed to give her access to his memories and knowledge is three years out of date.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - All Systems Red
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Martha Wells · Science fiction
Murderbot is a SecUnit — part robot, part cloned human tissue — that has hacked its own governor module and is technically free, though it has chosen not to tell anyone.
A kindred science fiction read.
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Books like A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: quick answers
What are the best books like A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet?
The best books like A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers are Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Happy Place by Emily Henry, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, such as found family, cultural difference, belonging and identity.
What should I read after A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet?
A natural next read after A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. A kindred science fiction read. Other strong choices are The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
What books are similar to A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers?
A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet centers on found family, cultural difference, belonging and identity. Books with a similar feel include Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Happy Place by Emily Henry, Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
