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Books like The Blade Itself

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie is about moral ambiguity, war and its costs, power and cynicism. 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. Homage to Catalonia
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    Homage to Catalonia

    George Orwell · Memoir

    Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.

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  2. 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.

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  3. War and Peace
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    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy · Literary fiction

    War and Peace follows five aristocratic Russian families across fifteen years of Napoleonic war and peace, from the drawing rooms of St.

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  4. The Power of Myth
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    The Power of Myth

    Joseph Campbell · Philosophy

    The Power of Myth is the transcript of six hours of conversations between Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers, filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in 1985 and 1986 and broadcast on PBS in 1988, shortly after Campbell's death.

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  5. A Court of Mist and Fury
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    A Court of Mist and Fury

    Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy

    A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.

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  6. A Court of Thorns and Roses
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    A Court of Thorns and Roses

    Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy

    Feyre Archeron is nineteen, hunting in winter to feed her family, when she kills a wolf in the forest and is taken by a creature from Prythian — the land of the fae — as payment for a life.

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