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Books like Dubliners
The best books like Dubliners are Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and A Moveable Feast. Dubliners by James Joyce is about paralysis, escape and entrapment, catholic ireland. 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.
- Ulysses
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James Joyce · Literary fiction
Ulysses takes place on a single day — June 16, 1904 — in Dublin, following three characters: Leopold Bloom, an advertising canvasser; his wife Molly; and Stephen Dedalus, the young writer from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · Literary fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus from early childhood to the edge of adulthood, when he leaves Ireland to pursue life as an artist.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - A Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway · Memoir
A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Hours
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Michael Cunningham · Literary fiction
The Hours follows three women across three different time periods, each living a single day, each connected to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.
Both dig into escape and entrapment.
Read the summary → - Exhalation: Stories
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Ted Chiang · Short stories
Exhalation: Stories is Ted Chiang's second collection, containing nine stories written between 2005 and 2019.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Ficciones
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Jorge Luis Borges · Short stories
Ficciones collects seventeen short stories and fictions by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in two parts in 1941 and 1944.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Interpreter of Maladies
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Jhumpa Lahiri · Short stories
Interpreter of Maladies is Jhumpa Lahiri's debut short story collection, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Stories of Your Life and Others
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · Short stories
Eight stories, all of them rigorously thought-out, many of them devastating.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · Short stories
Twelve stories, first published in The Strand Magazine between 1891 and 1892, collected here in their original order: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Last Wish
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Andrzej Sapkowski · Short stories
The Last Wish is the first Witcher book to be published in English, though not the first written, and it introduces readers to Geralt of Rivia — a professional monster-hunter in a world that is running out of the kind of monsters worth hunting.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - This Is How You Lose Her
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Junot Díaz · Short stories
This Is How You Lose Her is a linked story collection mostly narrated by Yunior — the same character who narrates The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — as a young man who cannot stop cheating on the women he loves.
A kindred short stories read.
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Books like Dubliners: quick answers
What are the best books like Dubliners?
The best books like Dubliners by James Joyce are Ulysses by James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Dubliners, such as paralysis, escape and entrapment, catholic ireland.
What should I read after Dubliners?
A natural next read after Dubliners is Ulysses by James Joyce. A kindred short stories read. Other strong choices are A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
What books are similar to Dubliners by James Joyce?
Dubliners centers on paralysis, escape and entrapment, catholic ireland. Books with a similar feel include Ulysses by James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
