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Books like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The best books like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell are Homage to Catalonia, War and Peace, and The Power of Myth. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke is about knowledge and its hoarding, faerie and the uncanny, empire and magic. 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 fantasy read.
Read the summary → - War and Peace
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Leo Tolstoy · Literary fiction
War and Peace follows five aristocratic Russian families across fifteen years of Napoleonic war and peace, from the drawing rooms of St.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - The Power of Myth
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Joseph Campbell · Philosophy
The Power of Myth is the transcript of six hours of conversations between Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers, filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in 1985 and 1986 and broadcast on PBS in 1988, shortly after Campbell's death.
A kindred fantasy 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 fantasy read.
Read the summary → - American Pastoral
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Philip Roth · Literary fiction
American Pastoral opens with a narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, learning at a high school reunion about the life and death of Seymour "the Swede" Levov — a man who embodied postwar American success so completely he seemed almost allegorical.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Court of Mist and Fury
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
Feyre Archeron is nineteen, hunting in winter to feed her family, when she kills a wolf in the forest and is taken by a creature from Prythian — the land of the fae — as payment for a life.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Darker Shade of Magic
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V.E. Schwab · Fantasy
A Darker Shade of Magic is set across four parallel versions of London — Red, Grey, White, and the long-destroyed Black — each existing in the same location but separated by the barriers between worlds.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Game of Thrones
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George R.R. Martin · Fantasy
A Game of Thrones is the first volume of George R.R.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Little Hatred
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Joe Abercrombie · Fantasy
A Little Hatred is the first book in Abercrombie's The Age of Madness trilogy, set in the same world as his First Law trilogy but a generation later.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Wizard of Earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Fantasy
A Wizard of Earthsea is Ursula K.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle · Fantasy
A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry, a prickly, self-doubting teenager whose father — a physicist working on a classified government project — has been missing for years.
A kindred fantasy read.
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Books like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: quick answers
What are the best books like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell?
The best books like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke are Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Beloved by Toni Morrison, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, such as knowledge and its hoarding, faerie and the uncanny, empire and magic.
What should I read after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell?
A natural next read after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Beloved by Toni Morrison.
What books are similar to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke?
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell centers on knowledge and its hoarding, faerie and the uncanny, empire and magic. Books with a similar feel include Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Beloved by Toni Morrison, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
