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Books like The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The best books like The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared are The Alchemist, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and A Visit from the Goon Squad. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson is about longevity and resilience, historical coincidence, accidental adventure. 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.
- The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · Literary fiction
Oscar Wao is an overweight Dominican American nerd from New Jersey who wants nothing more than to find love and write fantasy novels.
A kindred contemporary 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 contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Bel Canto
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Ann Patchett · Literary fiction
Bel Canto opens at a birthday party in an unnamed South American country: a Japanese industrialist, Hosokawa, is celebrating in the private residence of the country's vice president, the sole attraction being a performance by his favorite soprano, Roxane Coss.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction
Evelyn Hugo is eighty-one, a reclusive Hollywood legend who has outlived her beauty, most of her enemies, and all seven of her husbands.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
Read the summary → - American Gods
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
American Gods opens with Shadow Moon, a man released from prison days early because his wife has died in a car accident.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
Read the summary → - Hook, Line, and Sinker
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Tessa Bailey · Romance
Hannah Bellinger has always been the dependable one — her sister Piper's anchor, the practical twin who keeps things running.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
Read the summary → - Lord Jim
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Joseph Conrad · Literary fiction
Jim is a young British officer on a decrepit steamship carrying hundreds of Muslim pilgrims when, in a moment of crisis he cannot fully explain even to himself, he jumps overboard and abandons them.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
Read the summary → - The Human Stain
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Philip Roth · Literary fiction
Coleman Silk is a seventy-one-year-old classics professor and former dean at Athena College in western Massachusetts who has been driven from his position by a racially charged accusation.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
Read the summary → - The Story of a New Name
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Elena Ferrante · Literary fiction
The Story of a New Name is the second volume of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, continuing the story of Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo from roughly 1960 through the late 1960s.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
Read the summary → - The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Patricia Highsmith · Thriller
Tom Ripley is a small-time con man in New York, barely surviving on petty fraud, when a chance encounter leads a wealthy shipbuilder to hire him as an emissary: go to Italy, find my son Dickie, bring him home.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
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.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
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Books like The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: quick answers
What are the best books like The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared?
The best books like The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, such as longevity and resilience, historical coincidence, accidental adventure.
What should I read after The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared?
A natural next read after The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.
What books are similar to The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson?
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared centers on longevity and resilience, historical coincidence, accidental adventure. Books with a similar feel include The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, American Gods by Neil Gaiman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
