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Books like Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt is about grief and loss, connection across difference, animal intelligence. 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.
- The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Sy Montgomery · Science
Sy Montgomery is a naturalist and author who began spending time at the New England Aquarium to get to know a giant Pacific octopus named Athena.
Read the summary → - The Paper Palace
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Miranda Cowley Heller · Literary fiction
On a single morning in Cape Cod, fifty-year-old Elle Bishop faces a decision.
Read the summary → - Normal People
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Normal People follows Connell and Marianne from their small-town Irish secondary school through their years at Trinity College Dublin.
Read the summary → - The Year of Magical Thinking
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Joan Didion · Memoir
Joan Didion's account of the year following the sudden death of her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, is the most rigorous and unflinching memoir of grief in American literature.
Read the summary → - Conversations with Friends
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Conversations with Friends is told by Frances, a twenty-one-year-old Dublin student who performs spoken-word poetry with her best friend and ex-girlfriend Bobbi.
Read the summary → - A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
A Man Called Ove opens in a Swedish suburb where a fifty-nine-year-old man named Ove has just been forced into early retirement.
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