Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is about war and trauma, free will and fatalism, time and memory. 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.
- Catch-22
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Joseph Heller · Literary fiction
Yossarian is a bombardier stationed on the Mediterranean island of Pianosa during World War II who has concluded that the people trying to kill him are not the enemy — they're everyone, including his own commanders.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · History
All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.
Read the summary → - The Things They Carried
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Tim O'Brien · Memoir
Tim O'Brien served as a foot soldier in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970.
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.
Read the summary → - Night
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Elie Wiesel · Memoir
Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his deportation from the Transylvanian town of Sighet in 1944 and his survival of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
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.
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