Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Mrs Dalloway
The best books like Mrs Dalloway are To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Ulysses. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is about consciousness, time and memory, class and gender. 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.
- To the Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf · Literary fiction
To the Lighthouse is divided into three parts.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Waves
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Virginia Woolf · Literary fiction
The Waves is not quite a novel in any conventional sense.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Ulysses
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James Joyce · Literary fiction
Ulysses takes place on a single day — June 16, 1904 — in Dublin, following three characters: Leopold Bloom, an advertising canvasser; his wife Molly; and Stephen Dedalus, the young writer from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - A General Theory of Love
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Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology
A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Slaughterhouse-Five
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Kurt Vonnegut · Literary fiction
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.
Both dig into time and memory.
Read the summary → - The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood · Literary fiction
The Blind Assassin won the Man Booker Prize in 2000 and is arguably Atwood's most formally intricate novel.
Both dig into class and gender.
Read the summary → - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle · Religion & Spirituality
A New Earth is Eckhart Tolle's follow-up to The Power of Now, applying the same framework of presence and ego-transcendence to a broader account of human dysfunction and its transformation.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Being and Nothingness
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Jean-Paul Sartre · Philosophy
Being and Nothingness is Sartre's major philosophical treatise and the founding text of French existentialism.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Blindsight
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Peter Watts · Science fiction
Blindsight follows a crew of post-human specialists sent to intercept an alien object at the edge of the solar system in 2082.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Consciousness Explained
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Daniel C. Dennett · Philosophy
Consciousness Explained is Daniel Dennett's attempt to replace what he calls the Cartesian Theater — the intuitive picture of consciousness as a single unified stream of experience observed by a self — with a model he calls Multiple Drafts.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Antonio Damasio · Psychology
Antonio Damasio is a neurologist at USC whose work challenges the centuries-old idea that reason and emotion are separate faculties, with reason the reliable guide and emotion the unreliable interference.
Both dig into consciousness.
Read the summary → - Energy Leadership
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Bruce D. Schneider · Business
Energy Leadership is Bruce Schneider's framework for understanding how leaders show up — the quality of awareness and presence they bring to interactions, decisions, and crises.
Both dig into consciousness.
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Books like Mrs Dalloway: quick answers
What are the best books like Mrs Dalloway?
The best books like Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf are To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Mrs Dalloway, such as consciousness, time and memory, class and gender.
What should I read after Mrs Dalloway?
A natural next read after Mrs Dalloway is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are The Waves by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon.
What books are similar to Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf?
Mrs Dalloway centers on consciousness, time and memory, class and gender. Books with a similar feel include To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
