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Books like Ficciones
The best books like Ficciones are Homage to Catalonia, The Alchemist, and In Cold Blood. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges is about infinity and the labyrinth, memory and identity, fiction and reality. 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.
- Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
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 → - Tao Te Ching
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Laozi · Philosophy
The Tao Te Ching is one of the most translated texts in world literature and the foundational scripture of Taoism.
A kindred short stories read.
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.
Shares memory and identity and time and causality with Ficciones.
Read the summary → - Lila
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Marilynne Robinson · Literary fiction
Lila is the third novel set in Gilead, Iowa, and it arrives as a prequel and companion to both Gilead and Home.
Both dig into memory and identity.
Read the summary → - Night Watch
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Terry Pratchett · Fantasy
Night Watch is the twenty-ninth Discworld novel and the one many readers consider Pratchett's masterpiece.
Both dig into memory and identity.
Read the summary → - Piranesi
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Susanna Clarke · Fantasy
Piranesi is structured as the journal of a man who calls himself Piranesi, living in a House that contains the world: a vast and apparently infinite series of halls filled with marble statues, where the tides come in twice a day and the skies are visible through the upper floors.
Both dig into memory and identity.
Read the summary → - Project Hail Mary
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Andy Weir · Science fiction
Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of who he is, where he is, or why he's there.
Both dig into memory and identity.
Read the summary → - The English Patient
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Michael Ondaatje · Literary fiction
The English Patient is set at the end of the Second World War, in a damaged Italian villa north of Florence.
Both dig into memory and identity.
Read the summary → - Dubliners
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James Joyce · Short stories
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories set in Dublin in the early twentieth century, published in 1914 after nearly a decade of rejections and publisher disputes over its frank treatment of Irish life.
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.
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Books like Ficciones: quick answers
What are the best books like Ficciones?
The best books like Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges are Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Tao Te Ching by Laozi, Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Ficciones, such as infinity and the labyrinth, memory and identity, fiction and reality.
What should I read after Ficciones?
A natural next read after Ficciones is Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. A kindred short stories read. Other strong choices are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Tao Te Ching by Laozi.
What books are similar to Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges?
Ficciones centers on infinity and the labyrinth, memory and identity, fiction and reality. Books with a similar feel include Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Tao Te Ching by Laozi, Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang, Lila by Marilynne Robinson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
