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Books like The Buried Giant
The best books like The Buried Giant are Lila, The Things They Carried, and War and Peace. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro is about memory and forgetting, grief and marriage, war and reconciliation. 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 → - War and Peace
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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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Trial
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Franz Kafka · Literary fiction
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah · Historical fiction
France, 1939-1944.
Both dig into memory and forgetting.
Read the summary → - 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.
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Books like The Buried Giant: quick answers
What are the best books like The Buried Giant?
The best books like The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro are Lila by Marilynne Robinson, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Buried Giant, such as memory and forgetting, grief and marriage, war and reconciliation.
What should I read after The Buried Giant?
A natural next read after The Buried Giant is Lila by Marilynne Robinson. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Trial by Franz Kafka.
What books are similar to The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro?
The Buried Giant centers on memory and forgetting, grief and marriage, war and reconciliation. Books with a similar feel include Lila by Marilynne Robinson, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
