Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Idiot
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is about goodness and its costs, society's cruelty toward innocence, beauty and destruction. 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.
- Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoevsky · Literary fiction
Raskolnikov is a former student living in desperate poverty in St.
Read the summary → - The Brothers Karamazov
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Fyodor Dostoevsky · Literary fiction
Three brothers — Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov — orbit around their contemptible, sensuous father Fyodor, who is also a rival with Dmitri for the affections of a local woman.
Read the summary → - When Nietzsche Wept
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Irvin D. Yalom · Philosophy
When Nietzsche Wept is a philosophical novel by psychiatrist Irvin Yalom set in Vienna in 1882.
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.
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.
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.
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