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Books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The best books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time are A Wrinkle in Time, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, and Educated: A Memoir. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is about neurodivergence and perception, truth and trust, family breakdown. 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.
- A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle · Fantasy
A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry, a prickly, self-doubting teenager whose father — a physicist working on a classified government project — has been missing for years.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
William N. Thorndike · Business
The Outsiders profiles eight CEOs whose long-term returns to shareholders dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 and their industry peers, often by factors of ten to one hundred.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Educated: A Memoir
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Tara Westover · Memoir
Educated is Tara Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD in history from Cambridge University.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Normal People
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Normal People follows Connell and Marianne from their small-town Irish secondary school through their years at Trinity College Dublin.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Rubbernecker
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Belinda Bauer · Thriller
Patrick Fort is a student with autism spectrum disorder studying anatomy at Cardiff University.
Both dig into neurodivergence and perception.
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.
Read the summary → - Anxious People
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
Anxious People begins with a failed bank robbery.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beach Read
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Emily Henry · Contemporary fiction
January Andrews is a romance novelist who has completely lost faith in love after discovering her late father had a secret mistress for years.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beartown
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
Beartown is a dying town in rural Sweden whose only remaining source of identity and pride is its youth hockey program.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Book Lovers
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Emily Henry · Contemporary fiction
Nora Stephens is a literary agent in New York who is professionally excellent and personally guarded.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Carrie Soto Is Back
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Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction
Carrie Soto is a retired tennis legend with twenty Grand Slam titles, the most in history — until a young player named Nicki Chan wins her twenty-first and breaks Carrie's record.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Daisy Jones & The Six
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Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction
Daisy Jones & The Six is structured as an oral history — a transcript of interviews with the members of a fictional 1970s rock band, reconstructing how they rose, created their defining album, and then spectacularly fell apart in a single night in 1979.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
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Books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: quick answers
What are the best books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?
The best books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon are A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, such as neurodivergence and perception, truth and trust, family breakdown.
What should I read after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?
A natural next read after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Normal People by Sally Rooney.
What books are similar to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time centers on neurodivergence and perception, truth and trust, family breakdown. Books with a similar feel include A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
