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Books like Pride and Prejudice
The best books like Pride and Prejudice are A General Theory of Love, Emotional Intelligence, and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is about marriage and social pressure, class and status, pride and self-deception. 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.
- 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 → - Emotional Intelligence
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Daniel Goleman · Psychology
Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.
A kindred classics 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 classics read.
Read the summary → - Becoming
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Michelle Obama · Memoir
Becoming is Michelle Obama's account of how a girl from a modest house on Chicago's South Side became one of the most recognized people in the world — and what that journey cost and revealed.
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 → - A Is for Alibi
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Sue Grafton · Mystery
Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California — Grafton's fictionalized Santa Barbara — recently divorced for the second time and living alone in a small apartment she describes with genuine affection.
Both dig into female independence.
Read the summary → - Villette
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Charlotte Brontë · Literary fiction
Villette is Charlotte Brontë's final and most autobiographical novel, narrated by Lucy Snowe, an Englishwoman who travels alone to the fictional Belgian city of Villette after an unspecified catastrophe has stripped her of family, home, and prospects.
Both dig into female independence.
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 Pride and Prejudice: quick answers
What are the best books like Pride and Prejudice?
The best books like Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen are A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Pride and Prejudice, such as marriage and social pressure, class and status, pride and self-deception.
What should I read after Pride and Prejudice?
A natural next read after Pride and Prejudice is A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon. A kindred classics read. Other strong choices are Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Becoming by Michelle Obama.
What books are similar to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen?
Pride and Prejudice centers on marriage and social pressure, class and status, pride and self-deception. Books with a similar feel include A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
