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Books like Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami is about grief and loss, coming of age, mental illness. 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. The Bell Jar
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    The Bell Jar

    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.

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  2. Siddhartha
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    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse · Religion & Spirituality

    Siddhartha is Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel of spiritual seeking, written at a time when Hesse was deeply studying Buddhist and Hindu texts.

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  3. Steppenwolf
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    Steppenwolf

    Hermann Hesse · Philosophy

    Steppenwolf is Hermann Hesse's most psychologically intense and formally inventive novel, published in 1927 at a time of personal crisis.

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  4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

    Dave Eggers · Memoir

    Dave Eggers's debut memoir about losing both parents to cancer within five weeks and raising his younger brother Toph while trying to start a literary magazine in San Francisco in the mid-1990s arrived in 2000 with unusual self-consciousness about its own nature.

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  5. The Alchemist
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    The Alchemist

    Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality

    The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.

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  6. A Farewell to Arms
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    A Farewell to Arms

    Ernest Hemingway · Literary fiction

    A Farewell to Arms is set during the First World War in northern Italy and follows Frederic Henry, an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.

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