Contemporary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Lessons in Chemistry
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus is about gender and ambition, grief and resilience, science and rationalism. 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.
- The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath · Memoir
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, one month before Plath's death.
Read the summary → - Educated: A Memoir
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Tara Westover · Memoir
Educated is Tara Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD in history from Cambridge University.
Read the summary → - The Feminine Mystique
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Betty Friedan · History
The Feminine Mystique is Betty Friedan's 1963 diagnosis of a cultural crisis she called "the problem that has no name" — the pervasive unhappiness of educated American women who had, by all social measures, everything they were supposed to want: a house in the suburbs, a devoted husband, healthy children, and freedom from paid work.
Read the summary → - A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
A Man Called Ove opens in a Swedish suburb where a fifty-nine-year-old man named Ove has just been forced into early retirement.
Read the summary → - Anxious People
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
Anxious People begins with a failed bank robbery.
Read the summary → - Beach Read
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Emily Henry · Contemporary fiction
January Andrews is a romance novelist who has completely lost faith in love after discovering her late father had a secret mistress for years.
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