Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Solar Bones
The best books like Solar Bones are Lila, The Things They Carried, and Angela's Ashes. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack is about memory and mortality, family and ordinary life, ireland and history. 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.
- Lila
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Marilynne Robinson · Literary fiction
Lila is the third novel set in Gilead, Iowa, and it arrives as a prequel and companion to both Gilead and Home.
A kindred literary fiction read.
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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Angela's Ashes
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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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
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- 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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry · Literary fiction
A Fine Balance is set in an unnamed Indian city during Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975–1977, a period of suspended democracy, forced sterilization, and slum clearances that is barely taught in the West and barely taught in India.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Little Life
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Hanya Yanagihara · Literary fiction
A Little Life follows four men from college into middle age and beyond — Willem, an actor; JB, a painter; Malcolm, an architect; and Jude, a lawyer with a past that is revealed in increasingly devastating detail as the novel progresses.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · Literary fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus from early childhood to the edge of adulthood, when he leaves Ireland to pursue life as an artist.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Thousand Acres
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Jane Smiley · Literary fiction
A Thousand Acres retells King Lear on a thousand-acre Iowa farm in the 1970s.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan · Literary fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a novel told in thirteen chapters, each from a different point of view and sometimes in a radically different form — including one chapter composed entirely as a PowerPoint presentation.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · Literary fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins where Tom Sawyer left off — Huck Finn, the outcast son of the town drunk, has been taken in and given a respectable life he doesn't want.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - American Pastoral
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Philip Roth · Literary fiction
American Pastoral opens with a narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, learning at a high school reunion about the life and death of Seymour "the Swede" Levov — a man who embodied postwar American success so completely he seemed almost allegorical.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Americanah
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Literary fiction
Americanah follows Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who leaves Lagos for America as a university student and spends fifteen years navigating a country that insists on categorizing her in ways Nigeria never did.
A kindred literary fiction read.
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Books like Solar Bones: quick answers
What are the best books like Solar Bones?
The best books like Solar Bones by Mike McCormack are Lila by Marilynne Robinson, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Solar Bones, such as memory and mortality, family and ordinary life, ireland and history.
What should I read after Solar Bones?
A natural next read after Solar Bones is Lila by Marilynne Robinson. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
What books are similar to Solar Bones by Mike McCormack?
Solar Bones centers on memory and mortality, family and ordinary life, ireland and history. Books with a similar feel include Lila by Marilynne Robinson, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
