Contemporary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Beartown
Beartown by Fredrik Backman is about community and silence, sports culture and identity, sexual violence and accountability. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
H. G. Bissinger · Memoir
Friday Night Lights is H.
Read the summary → - A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
A Man Called Ove opens in a Swedish suburb where a fifty-nine-year-old man named Ove has just been forced into early retirement.
Read the summary → - American Pastoral
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Philip Roth · Literary fiction
American Pastoral opens with a narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, learning at a high school reunion about the life and death of Seymour "the Swede" Levov — a man who embodied postwar American success so completely he seemed almost allegorical.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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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.
Read the summary → - Anxious People
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
Anxious People begins with a failed bank robbery.
Read the summary → - Beach Read
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Emily Henry · Contemporary fiction
January Andrews is a romance novelist who has completely lost faith in love after discovering her late father had a secret mistress for years.
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