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Books like Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about dreams and their failure, loneliness, friendship. 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 Grapes of Wrath
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck · Literary fiction

    The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's 1939 novel about the Joad family, Oklahoma sharecroppers forced off their land by the Dust Bowl and bank foreclosure, who load everything they own onto a truck and drive Route 66 to California in search of work and a decent life.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Man's Search for Meaning
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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology

    Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.

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  4. Angela's Ashes
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    Angela's Ashes

    Frank McCourt · Memoir

    Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's memoir of a catastrophically impoverished Irish Catholic childhood, first in Brooklyn and then in Limerick, during the 1930s and 1940s.

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  5. Between the World and Me
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    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · Memoir

    Between the World and Me is a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son, Samori, about what it means to live in a Black body in the United States.

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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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