Contemporary fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Fault in Our Stars
The best books like The Fault in Our Stars are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wonder, and Normal People. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is about mortality and illness, love and loss, meaning-making. 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.
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · Contemporary fiction
Christopher John Francis Boone is fifteen years old, knows all the prime numbers up to 7,057, and has decided to investigate who killed his neighbor's dog with a garden fork.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Wonder
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R.J. Palacio · Contemporary fiction
Auggie Pullman is ten years old and about to start fifth grade at a private school in New York City.
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 → - The Year of Magical Thinking
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Joan Didion · Memoir
Joan Didion's account of the year following the sudden death of her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, is the most rigorous and unflinching memoir of grief in American literature.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Simple Wild
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K.A. Tucker · Contemporary fiction
The Simple Wild follows Calla Fletcher, a Toronto-based woman who has grown up estranged from her father Wren, a bush pilot living in rural Alaska.
Both dig into love and loss.
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.
Both dig into love and loss.
Read the summary → - Bouncing Forward
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Michaela Haas · Health
Bouncing Forward is Michaela Haas's examination of post-traumatic growth — the documented phenomenon in which people who survive severe trauma often report not just recovery but meaningful transformation.
Both dig into meaning-making.
Read the summary → - The Little Prince
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · Philosophy
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote The Little Prince in New York in 1942, in exile from a France under occupation, and the book was published in French and English simultaneously in 1943, the year before he disappeared on a reconnaissance flight.
Both dig into love and loss.
Read the summary → - The Seven Year Slip
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Ashley Poston · Romance
Clementine inherits her aunt's apartment in New York City — an apartment with a particular enchantment: it occasionally slips into the past.
Both dig into love and loss.
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.
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Books like The Fault in Our Stars: quick answers
What are the best books like The Fault in Our Stars?
The best books like The Fault in Our Stars by John Green are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Fault in Our Stars, such as mortality and illness, love and loss, meaning-making.
What should I read after The Fault in Our Stars?
A natural next read after The Fault in Our Stars is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
What books are similar to The Fault in Our Stars by John Green?
The Fault in Our Stars centers on mortality and illness, love and loss, meaning-making. Books with a similar feel include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
