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Books like Les Misérables
The best books like Les Misérables are The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Diary of a Young Girl. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo is about justice and mercy, poverty and social inequality, redemption. 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.
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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Victor Hugo · Classics
Set in Paris in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame centers on Quasimodo — deaf, disfigured, and wholly devoted to the cathedral that is his home — and Esmeralda, a young Romani street dancer whose beauty ignites obsession in several men simultaneously: Claude Frollo, the archdeacon who raised Quasimodo and whose repressed religious fervor curdles into predatory lust; Phoebus, the vain soldier who uses Esmeralda without feeling anything for her; and Quasimodo himself, who loves her with a wordless ferocity she cannot fully see.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · History
All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank · Memoir
Anne Frank's diary, kept during the two years she spent hiding with her family in a concealed Amsterdam apartment, stands as one of the most widely read first-person accounts of the Holocaust.
A kindred classics read.
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- Night
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Elie Wiesel · Memoir
Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his deportation from the Transylvanian town of Sighet in 1944 and his survival of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoevsky · Literary fiction
Raskolnikov is a former student living in desperate poverty in St.
Both dig into redemption.
Read the summary → - Grant
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Ron Chernow · Biography
Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S.
Both dig into redemption.
Read the summary → - Open: An Autobiography
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Andre Agassi · Memoir
Andre Agassi's autobiography opens with one of the most famous confessions in sports memoir: he hates tennis.
Both dig into redemption.
Read the summary → - Reminders of Him
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Colleen Hoover · Contemporary fiction
Kenna Rowan is released from prison after serving five years for a drunk driving accident that killed her boyfriend Scotty.
Both dig into redemption.
Read the summary → - Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand · History
Seabiscuit is the story of the undersized, knobby-kneed racehorse who became the most celebrated American athlete of the late 1930s — drawing larger newspaper audiences than Franklin Roosevelt or Joe DiMaggio at his peak.
Both dig into redemption.
Read the summary → - The Bible
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Various · Religion & Spirituality
The Bible is a collection of texts assembled over roughly fifteen centuries, written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek by dozens of authors across wildly different genres: law, history, poetry, prophecy, wisdom literature, apocalypse, and letters.
Both dig into redemption.
Read the summary → - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · Biography
Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.
Both dig into redemption.
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Books like Les Misérables: quick answers
What are the best books like Les Misérables?
The best books like Les Misérables by Victor Hugo are The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Night by Elie Wiesel, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Les Misérables, such as justice and mercy, poverty and social inequality, redemption.
What should I read after Les Misérables?
A natural next read after Les Misérables is The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo. A kindred classics read. Other strong choices are All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Night by Elie Wiesel.
What books are similar to Les Misérables by Victor Hugo?
Les Misérables centers on justice and mercy, poverty and social inequality, redemption. Books with a similar feel include The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Night by Elie Wiesel, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
