Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Hours
The Hours by Michael Cunningham is about mental illness and suicide, women's interiority, the passage of time. 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.
- An Unquiet Mind
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Kay Redfield Jamison · Psychology
Kay Redfield Jamison is a psychiatrist and professor who has manic-depressive illness.
Read the summary → - A Grief Observed
- 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.
Read the summary → - Beautiful World, Where Are You
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Beautiful World, Where Are You follows two women in their late twenties — Alice, a novelist recovering from a breakdown in a rented house in rural Ireland, and Eileen, her best friend working at a literary magazine in Dublin.
Read the summary → - Just Kids
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Patti Smith · Memoir
Just Kids is Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir of her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from their first meeting in New York in 1967 through their years of shared poverty, artistic development, and eventual celebrity, to Mapplethorpe's death from AIDS in 1989.
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.
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