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Books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. A Wrinkle in Time
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    A Wrinkle in Time

    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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Educated: A Memoir
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    Educated: A Memoir

    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.

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  4. Normal People
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    Normal People

    Sally Rooney · Literary fiction

    Normal People follows Connell and Marianne from their small-town Irish secondary school through their years at Trinity College Dublin.

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  5. A Man Called Ove
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    A Man Called Ove

    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.

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  6. Anxious People
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    Anxious People

    Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction

    Anxious People begins with a failed bank robbery.

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