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Books like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The best books like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and In Cold Blood. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle is about deductive reasoning, class and victorian society, observation and blindness. 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.
- Death on the Nile
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
A luxury Nile cruise becomes the setting for one of Agatha Christie's most accomplished locked-room puzzles.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
Roger Ackroyd, a wealthy widower in the English village of King's Abbot, is found stabbed in his study the evening after confiding to a friend that a blackmailer has driven his new fiancée to suicide.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · History
Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Mr. Mercedes
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Stephen King · Thriller
Bill Hodges is three months out of the police force, sixty-two years old, and sitting with a revolver in his lap watching television.
Both dig into justice outside the law.
Read the summary → - Dubliners
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James Joyce · Short stories
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories set in Dublin in the early twentieth century, published in 1914 after nearly a decade of rejections and publisher disputes over its frank treatment of Irish life.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Exhalation: Stories
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Ted Chiang · Short stories
Exhalation: Stories is Ted Chiang's second collection, containing nine stories written between 2005 and 2019.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Ficciones
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Jorge Luis Borges · Short stories
Ficciones collects seventeen short stories and fictions by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in two parts in 1941 and 1944.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Interpreter of Maladies
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Jhumpa Lahiri · Short stories
Interpreter of Maladies is Jhumpa Lahiri's debut short story collection, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Stories of Your Life and Others
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · Short stories
Eight stories, all of them rigorously thought-out, many of them devastating.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Last Wish
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Andrzej Sapkowski · Short stories
The Last Wish is the first Witcher book to be published in English, though not the first written, and it introduces readers to Geralt of Rivia — a professional monster-hunter in a world that is running out of the kind of monsters worth hunting.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - This Is How You Lose Her
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Junot Díaz · Short stories
This Is How You Lose Her is a linked story collection mostly narrated by Yunior — the same character who narrates The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — as a young man who cannot stop cheating on the women he loves.
A kindred short stories read.
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Books like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: quick answers
What are the best books like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
The best books like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle are Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, such as deductive reasoning, class and victorian society, observation and blindness.
What should I read after The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
A natural next read after The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. A kindred short stories read. Other strong choices are The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre.
What books are similar to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle?
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes centers on deductive reasoning, class and victorian society, observation and blindness. Books with a similar feel include Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King, Dubliners by James Joyce — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
