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Books like Persuasion
The best books like Persuasion are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and A General Theory of Love. Persuasion by Jane Austen is about second chances, regret and constancy, class and social change. 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.
- Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen · Classics
Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences in English literature and immediately establishes its ironic mode: a truth universally acknowledged turns out to be a social pressure universally imposed.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen · Classics
Two sisters, dispossessed by the legal mechanics of entail after their father's death, move to a smaller house in Devonshire with reduced means and reduced prospects.
A kindred classics read.
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 classics read.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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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.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - One Day in December
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Josie Silver · Romance
Laurie spots a man through the window of a London bus in December and feels an immediate, overwhelming certainty that she knows him — that he is, in some uncomplicated way, meant for her.
Both dig into second chances.
Read the summary → - Reminders of Him
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Colleen Hoover · Contemporary fiction
Kenna Rowan is released from prison after serving five years for a drunk driving accident that killed her boyfriend Scotty.
Both dig into second chances.
Read the summary → - The Bromance Book Club
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Lyssa Kay Adams · Romance
The Bromance Book Club centers on Gavin Scott, a professional baseball player whose wife Thea has just told him their marriage is over.
Both dig into second chances.
Read the summary → - Bleak House
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Charles Dickens · Classics
Bleak House is organized around the interminable Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce — a legal dispute over a will that has been grinding through the Court of Chancery for decades, consuming the fortunes and lives of everyone attached to it.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Candide
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Voltaire · Classics
Candide is a young man raised in a Westphalian castle on the philosophy of his tutor Pangloss: that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens · Classics
David Copperfield is the novel Dickens called his "favourite child" — a first-person bildungsroman that tracks David from a motherless childhood in Suffolk through blacking-factory misery (barely disguised autobiography), education, early work in London, two marriages, and eventual literary success.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Doctor Zhivago
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Boris Pasternak · Classics
Doctor Zhivago is the novel Boris Pasternak spent much of his adult life writing and which the Soviet state refused to publish, leading to its smuggled publication in Italian in 1957.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Emma
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Jane Austen · Classics
Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, and rich, and she has been comfortable and a little bit wrong about things her entire life.
A kindred classics read.
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Books like Persuasion: quick answers
What are the best books like Persuasion?
The best books like Persuasion by Jane Austen are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, One Day in December by Josie Silver, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Persuasion, such as second chances, regret and constancy, class and social change.
What should I read after Persuasion?
A natural next read after Persuasion is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. A kindred classics read. Other strong choices are Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
What books are similar to Persuasion by Jane Austen?
Persuasion centers on second chances, regret and constancy, class and social change. Books with a similar feel include Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, One Day in December by Josie Silver, Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
