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Books like Demon Copperhead
The best books like Demon Copperhead are Educated: A Memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver is about poverty and class, addiction, childhood survival. 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.
- 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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - 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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
William N. Thorndike · Business
The Outsiders profiles eight CEOs whose long-term returns to shareholders dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 and their industry peers, often by factors of ten to one hundred.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beloved
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Toni Morrison · Literary fiction
Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house shadowed by the ghost of a baby she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Normal People
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Normal People follows Connell and Marianne from their small-town Irish secondary school through their years at Trinity College Dublin.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance · Memoir
Hillbilly Elegy is J.
Shares addiction and appalachian identity with Demon Copperhead.
Read the summary → - Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff · Memoir
Beautiful Boy is David Sheff's account of watching his son Nic become addicted to methamphetamine through his late teens and early twenties, and of the years Sheff spent trying to understand it, respond to it, and survive it as a parent.
Both dig into addiction.
Read the summary → - Daisy Jones & The Six
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Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction
Daisy Jones & The Six is structured as an oral history — a transcript of interviews with the members of a fictional 1970s rock band, reconstructing how they rose, created their defining album, and then spectacularly fell apart in a single night in 1979.
Both dig into addiction.
Read the summary → - Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke · Psychology
Dopamine Nation is psychiatrist Anna Lembke's account of how modern life has engineered an environment of endless easy pleasure — and what that does to the brain.
Both dig into addiction.
Read the summary → - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
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Gabor Maté · Health
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is Gabor Maté's book about addiction, written while he was working as a physician in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, one of North America's most concentrated pockets of poverty, drug use, and homelessness.
Both dig into addiction.
Read the summary → - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · Memoir
Kitchen Confidential began as an essay in The New Yorker in 1999.
Both dig into addiction.
Read the summary → - Life
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Keith Richards · Memoir
Keith Richards's Life was written with journalist James Fox and published when Richards was 66, after more than fifty years with the Rolling Stones.
Both dig into addiction.
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Books like Demon Copperhead: quick answers
What are the best books like Demon Copperhead?
The best books like Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver are Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Demon Copperhead, such as poverty and class, addiction, childhood survival.
What should I read after Demon Copperhead?
A natural next read after Demon Copperhead is Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, Beloved by Toni Morrison.
What books are similar to Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver?
Demon Copperhead centers on poverty and class, addiction, childhood survival. Books with a similar feel include Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
