Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like One Hundred Years of Solitude
The best books like One Hundred Years of Solitude are The Alchemist, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and Guns, Germs, and Steel. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is about solitude and isolation, cyclical history, myth and reality. 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 Alchemist
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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.
A kindred literary fiction 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 literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway · Memoir
A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Exit West
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Mohsin Hamid · Literary fiction
Exit West follows Saeed and Nadia, two young people who meet and fall in love in an unnamed city beginning to fracture under the pressure of civil conflict.
Both dig into political violence.
Read the summary → - The Famished Road
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Ben Okri · Literary fiction
The Famished Road is narrated by Azaro, a spirit child in West Africa.
Both dig into political violence.
Read the summary → - The Sympathizer
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Viet Thanh Nguyen · Literary fiction
The Sympathizer is narrated by a nameless communist spy who is also the aide-de-camp to a South Vietnamese general.
Both dig into political violence.
Read the summary → - Under the Volcano
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Malcolm Lowry · Literary fiction
Malcolm Lowry's 1947 novel takes place on a single day — the Mexican Day of the Dead, November 2, 1938 — in the small town of Quauhnahuac (Cuernavaca) in the shadow of the Popocatépetl volcano.
Both dig into political violence.
Read the summary → - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.
Both dig into political violence.
Read the summary → - The Anatomy of Fascism
- The Dogs of Riga
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Henning Mankell · Thriller
The Dogs of Riga is the second Kurt Wallander novel, published in 1992 and set partly in Sweden but primarily in Latvia at the moment the Soviet Union is collapsing.
Both dig into political violence.
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Books like One Hundred Years of Solitude: quick answers
What are the best books like One Hundred Years of Solitude?
The best books like One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with One Hundred Years of Solitude, such as solitude and isolation, cyclical history, myth and reality.
What should I read after One Hundred Years of Solitude?
A natural next read after One Hundred Years of Solitude is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.
What books are similar to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez?
One Hundred Years of Solitude centers on solitude and isolation, cyclical history, myth and reality. Books with a similar feel include The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
