Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Beautiful World, Where Are You
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney is about fame and artistic labor, friendship and intimacy, late capitalism and meaning. 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.
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · Memoir
Dave Eggers's debut memoir about losing both parents to cancer within five weeks and raising his younger brother Toph while trying to start a literary magazine in San Francisco in the mid-1990s arrived in 2000 with unusual self-consciousness about its own nature.
Read the summary → - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · Literary fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is structured as a letter from a young Vietnamese-American man, Little Dog, to his illiterate mother — a letter she will never be able to read.
Read the summary → - Memorial
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Bryan Washington · Literary fiction
Memorial begins with a swap: Benson, a Black American childcare worker in Houston, and his Japanese boyfriend Mike are in a troubled relationship when Mike's estranged father calls from Japan — he is dying.
Read the summary → - Educated: A Memoir
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Tara Westover · Memoir
Educated is Tara Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD in history from Cambridge University.
Read the summary → - Just Kids
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Patti Smith · Memoir
Just Kids is Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir of her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from their first meeting in New York in 1967 through their years of shared poverty, artistic development, and eventual celebrity, to Mapplethorpe's death from AIDS in 1989.
Read the summary → - A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway · Literary fiction
A Farewell to Arms is set during the First World War in northern Italy and follows Frederic Henry, an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.
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