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Books like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Homage to Catalonia
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    Homage to Catalonia

    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.

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  2. War and Peace
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    War and Peace

    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.

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  3. The Power of Myth
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    The Power of Myth

    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.

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  4. Beloved
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    Beloved

    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.

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  5. American Pastoral
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    American Pastoral

    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.

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  6. A Court of Mist and Fury
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    A Court of Mist and Fury

    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.

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