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Books like Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is about moral courage, complicity and silence, community and conformity. 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.

  1. Beloved
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    Beloved

    Toni Morrison · Literary fiction

    Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house shadowed by the ghost of a baby she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.

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  2. Night
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    Night

    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.

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  3. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    Elena Ferrante · Literary fiction

    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay is the third novel in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, picking up where The Story of a New Name left off.

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  4. Angela's Ashes
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    Angela's Ashes

    Frank McCourt · Memoir

    Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's memoir of a catastrophically impoverished Irish Catholic childhood, first in Brooklyn and then in Limerick, during the 1930s and 1940s.

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  5. The Great Gatsby
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    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · Classics

    The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner who moves to Long Island in the summer of 1922 and finds himself adjacent to the fabulous, mysterious parties of his neighbor Jay Gatsby.

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  6. A Farewell to Arms
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    A Farewell to Arms

    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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