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Books like The Dutch House
The best books like The Dutch House are Run, Educated: A Memoir, and Normal People. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is about family and memory, wealth and class, abandonment. 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.
- Run
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Ann Patchett · Literary fiction
Run is set over the course of a single night in Boston, threading through the lives of the Doyle family — Bernard Doyle, a former mayor and widower, and his two adopted Black sons, Tip and Teddy.
A kindred literary 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 literary 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 literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · Memoir
Dave Eggers's debut memoir about losing both parents to cancer within five weeks and raising his younger brother Toph while trying to start a literary magazine in San Francisco in the mid-1990s arrived in 2000 with unusual self-consciousness about its own nature.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Pedro Páramo
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Juan Rulfo · Literary fiction
Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo is a short novel of extraordinary intensity, barely 120 pages, that many writers — Gabriel García Márquez among them — cite as among the most influential fiction ever written in Spanish.
Both dig into abandonment.
Read the summary → - Malibu Rising
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Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction
Malibu Rising takes place across a single night in August 1983, when the four Riva siblings throw the most famous party in Malibu — and the night ends in fire.
Both dig into sibling bonds.
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.
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Books like The Dutch House: quick answers
What are the best books like The Dutch House?
The best books like The Dutch House by Ann Patchett are Run by Ann Patchett, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Normal People by Sally Rooney, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Dutch House, such as family and memory, wealth and class, abandonment.
What should I read after The Dutch House?
A natural next read after The Dutch House is Run by Ann Patchett. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Normal People by Sally Rooney, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.
What books are similar to The Dutch House by Ann Patchett?
The Dutch House centers on family and memory, wealth and class, abandonment. Books with a similar feel include Run by Ann Patchett, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Normal People by Sally Rooney, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
