Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Lincoln Highway
The best books like The Lincoln Highway are The Great Gatsby, American Pastoral, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is about freedom and constraint, brotherhood, american mythology. 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 Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald · Classics
The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner who moves to Long Island in the summer of 1922 and finds himself adjacent to the fabulous, mysterious parties of his neighbor Jay Gatsby.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - American Pastoral
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Philip Roth · Literary fiction
American Pastoral opens with a narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, learning at a high school reunion about the life and death of Seymour "the Swede" Levov — a man who embodied postwar American success so completely he seemed almost allegorical.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · Literary fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins where Tom Sawyer left off — Huck Finn, the outcast son of the town drunk, has been taken in and given a respectable life he doesn't want.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Life of Pi
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Yann Martel · Literary fiction
Life of Pi opens in Pondicherry, India, where Pi Patel grows up as the son of a zookeeper, accumulating an unorthodox religious education — he practices Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam simultaneously, to the bafflement of the adults around him.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Gilead
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Marilynne Robinson · Literary fiction
Gilead is written as a long letter from John Ames, a 76-year-old Congregationalist minister in Iowa, to his seven-year-old son — a letter the boy will not read until he is grown and his father is long dead.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Intermezzo
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Intermezzo is Sally Rooney's fourth novel, following two brothers in Dublin in the months after their father's death.
Both dig into brotherhood.
Read the summary → - Kafka on the Shore
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Haruki Murakami · Literary fiction
Kafka on the Shore runs two parallel narratives that eventually, obliquely, converge.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - Norwegian Wood
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Haruki Murakami · Literary fiction
Norwegian Wood is Murakami's most straightforwardly realist novel and his most personal — a coming-of-age story set in late 1960s Tokyo, narrated by Toru Watanabe, who is recalling the year he was nineteen and the two women who shaped him.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - Slaughterhouse-Five
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Kurt Vonnegut · Literary fiction
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.
Both dig into american mythology.
Read the summary → - The Marriage Plot
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Jeffrey Eugenides · Literary fiction
Madeleine Hanna graduates from Brown University in 1982 and is in love with two very different men: Leonard Bankhead, brilliant and bipolar, and Mitchell Grammaticus, a religious studies major searching for something larger than himself.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - The Portrait of a Lady
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Henry James · Literary fiction
Isabel Archer is an intelligent, independent young American woman who arrives in Europe convinced that she wants nothing more than to be free — free from convention, from the pressure to marry, from the enclosures that other women seem to accept without complaint.
Both dig into freedom and constraint.
Read the summary → - A Wizard of Earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Fantasy
A Wizard of Earthsea is Ursula K.
Both dig into coming of age.
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Books like The Lincoln Highway: quick answers
What are the best books like The Lincoln Highway?
The best books like The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Lincoln Highway, such as freedom and constraint, brotherhood, american mythology.
What should I read after The Lincoln Highway?
A natural next read after The Lincoln Highway is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are American Pastoral by Philip Roth, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
What books are similar to The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles?
The Lincoln Highway centers on freedom and constraint, brotherhood, american mythology. Books with a similar feel include The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Intermezzo by Sally Rooney — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
