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Books like Pedro Páramo
The best books like Pedro Páramo are Homage to Catalonia, The Alchemist, and Ficciones. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo is about death and memory, power and tyranny, rural mexico and violence. 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.
- 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 → - 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 → - Ficciones
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Jorge Luis Borges · Short stories
Ficciones collects seventeen short stories and fictions by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in two parts in 1941 and 1944.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Dutch House
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Ann Patchett · Literary fiction
The Dutch House is narrated by Danny Conroy, who along with his sister Maeve grew up in an extraordinary mansion in the suburbs of Philadelphia — a house their father bought as a monument to his own success.
Both dig into abandonment.
Read the summary → - A Farewell to Arms
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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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry · Literary fiction
A Fine Balance is set in an unnamed Indian city during Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975–1977, a period of suspended democracy, forced sterilization, and slum clearances that is barely taught in the West and barely taught in India.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Little Life
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Hanya Yanagihara · Literary fiction
A Little Life follows four men from college into middle age and beyond — Willem, an actor; JB, a painter; Malcolm, an architect; and Jude, a lawyer with a past that is revealed in increasingly devastating detail as the novel progresses.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · Literary fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus from early childhood to the edge of adulthood, when he leaves Ireland to pursue life as an artist.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Thousand Acres
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Jane Smiley · Literary fiction
A Thousand Acres retells King Lear on a thousand-acre Iowa farm in the 1970s.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan · Literary fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a novel told in thirteen chapters, each from a different point of view and sometimes in a radically different form — including one chapter composed entirely as a PowerPoint presentation.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · Literary fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins where Tom Sawyer left off — Huck Finn, the outcast son of the town drunk, has been taken in and given a respectable life he doesn't want.
A kindred literary fiction read.
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Books like Pedro Páramo: quick answers
What are the best books like Pedro Páramo?
The best books like Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo are Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Pedro Páramo, such as death and memory, power and tyranny, rural mexico and violence.
What should I read after Pedro Páramo?
A natural next read after Pedro Páramo is Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
What books are similar to Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo?
Pedro Páramo centers on death and memory, power and tyranny, rural mexico and violence. Books with a similar feel include Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
