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Books like The Great Gatsby
The best books like The Great Gatsby are A Moveable Feast, The Bell Jar, and Steppenwolf. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about the american dream, class and wealth, illusion and disillusionment. 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 Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway · Memoir
A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath · Memoir
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, one month before Plath's death.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Steppenwolf
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Hermann Hesse · Philosophy
Steppenwolf is Hermann Hesse's most psychologically intense and formally inventive novel, published in 1927 at a time of personal crisis.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Tender Is the Night
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F. Scott Fitzgerald · Classics
Tender Is the Night follows Dick Diver, a brilliant American psychiatrist, and his wife Nicole — a former patient he married — as they host and dazzle a circle of wealthy expatriates on the French Riviera in the 1920s.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Small Fry
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Lisa Brennan-Jobs · Memoir
Small Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs's memoir of growing up as the daughter Steve Jobs long refused to acknowledge.
Both dig into class and wealth.
Read the summary → - The Inheritance Games
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes · Mystery
When broke teenager Avery Grambs is named the sole heir to billionaire Tobias Hawthorne's multi-billion-dollar estate, she has no idea why.
Both dig into class and wealth.
Read the summary → - Bleak House
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Charles Dickens · Classics
Bleak House is organized around the interminable Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce — a legal dispute over a will that has been grinding through the Court of Chancery for decades, consuming the fortunes and lives of everyone attached to it.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Candide
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Voltaire · Classics
Candide is a young man raised in a Westphalian castle on the philosophy of his tutor Pangloss: that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens · Classics
David Copperfield is the novel Dickens called his "favourite child" — a first-person bildungsroman that tracks David from a motherless childhood in Suffolk through blacking-factory misery (barely disguised autobiography), education, early work in London, two marriages, and eventual literary success.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Doctor Zhivago
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Boris Pasternak · Classics
Doctor Zhivago is the novel Boris Pasternak spent much of his adult life writing and which the Soviet state refused to publish, leading to its smuggled publication in Italian in 1957.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Emma
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Jane Austen · Classics
Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, and rich, and she has been comfortable and a little bit wrong about things her entire life.
A kindred classics read.
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Books like The Great Gatsby: quick answers
What are the best books like The Great Gatsby?
The best books like The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Great Gatsby, such as the american dream, class and wealth, illusion and disillusionment.
What should I read after The Great Gatsby?
A natural next read after The Great Gatsby is A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. A kindred classics read. Other strong choices are The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What books are similar to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The Great Gatsby centers on the american dream, class and wealth, illusion and disillusionment. Books with a similar feel include A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
