Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Exit West
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid is about migration and displacement, love under pressure, identity and belonging. 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.
- Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi · Historical fiction
Homegoing begins in eighteenth-century Ghana with two half-sisters who never meet.
Read the summary → - Pachinko
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Min Jin Lee · Historical fiction
Pachinko follows four generations of a Korean family from a small fishing village in early twentieth-century Korea to Osaka and Yokohama in postwar Japan.
Read the summary → - The Sympathizer
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Viet Thanh Nguyen · Literary fiction
The Sympathizer is narrated by a nameless communist spy who is also the aide-de-camp to a South Vietnamese general.
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.
Read the summary → - A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry · Literary fiction
A Fine Balance is set in an unnamed Indian city during Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975–1977, a period of suspended democracy, forced sterilization, and slum clearances that is barely taught in the West and barely taught in India.
Read the summary → - A Little Life
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Hanya Yanagihara · Literary fiction
A Little Life follows four men from college into middle age and beyond — Willem, an actor; JB, a painter; Malcolm, an architect; and Jude, a lawyer with a past that is revealed in increasingly devastating detail as the novel progresses.
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