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Books like The Marriage Plot

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides is about love and literary theory, mental illness, coming of age. 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.

  1. The Virgin Suicides
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    The Virgin Suicides

    Jeffrey Eugenides · Literary fiction

    Five sisters.

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  2. Middlesex
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    Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides · Literary fiction

    Cal Stephanides is a middle-aged man living in Berlin who decides to tell the whole story — not just his own life, but the lives of his Greek immigrant grandparents and parents, all the way back to the incest that introduced a recessive gene into his bloodline and the gene that made Cal intersex.

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  3. The Bell Jar
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    The Bell Jar

    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.

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  4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

    Dave Eggers · Memoir

    Dave Eggers's debut memoir about losing both parents to cancer within five weeks and raising his younger brother Toph while trying to start a literary magazine in San Francisco in the mid-1990s arrived in 2000 with unusual self-consciousness about its own nature.

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  5. Educated: A Memoir
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    Educated: A Memoir

    Tara Westover · Memoir

    Educated is Tara Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD in history from Cambridge University.

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  6. A Farewell to Arms
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    A Farewell to Arms

    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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