Fantasy · Similar reads
Books like The Midnight Sun
The best books like The Midnight Sun are Homage to Catalonia, A Darker Shade of Magic, and Ubik. The Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer is about desire and restraint, obsession and love, predator and prey. 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.
- 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 fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Darker Shade of Magic
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V.E. Schwab · Fantasy
A Darker Shade of Magic is set across four parallel versions of London — Red, Grey, White, and the long-destroyed Black — each existing in the same location but separated by the barriers between worlds.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Ubik
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Philip K. Dick · Science fiction
Set in a near-future 1992 where psychic mercenaries and anti-psi agents compete for corporate contracts, Ubik opens as a routine job goes catastrophically wrong.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle · Fantasy
A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry, a prickly, self-doubting teenager whose father — a physicist working on a classified government project — has been missing for years.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Neverwhere
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
Neverwhere began as a BBC TV series in 1996 and was novelized by Gaiman in the same year.
Both dig into identity and transformation.
Read the summary → - Stardust
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
Stardust begins with a simple bargain: young Tristran Thorn promises a girl he fancies that he will bring her a fallen star, and to find it he must cross the wall at the edge of his English village into Faerie.
Both dig into identity and transformation.
Read the summary → - Uprooted
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Naomi Novik · Fantasy
Uprooted is a standalone fantasy novel inspired by Polish folklore.
Both dig into identity and transformation.
Read the summary → - The Stars My Destination
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Alfred Bester · Science fiction
Gully Foyle is the worst kind of man: stupid, brutal, and totally without ambition — until the day a passing spaceship fails to rescue him from a wrecked hulk where he has survived alone for months.
Both dig into identity and transformation.
Read the summary → - A Court of Mist and Fury
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
Feyre Archeron is nineteen, hunting in winter to feed her family, when she kills a wolf in the forest and is taken by a creature from Prythian — the land of the fae — as payment for a life.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Game of Thrones
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George R.R. Martin · Fantasy
A Game of Thrones is the first volume of George R.R.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Little Hatred
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Joe Abercrombie · Fantasy
A Little Hatred is the first book in Abercrombie's The Age of Madness trilogy, set in the same world as his First Law trilogy but a generation later.
A kindred fantasy read.
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Books like The Midnight Sun: quick answers
What are the best books like The Midnight Sun?
The best books like The Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer are Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Midnight Sun, such as desire and restraint, obsession and love, predator and prey.
What should I read after The Midnight Sun?
A natural next read after The Midnight Sun is Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
What books are similar to The Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer?
The Midnight Sun centers on desire and restraint, obsession and love, predator and prey. Books with a similar feel include Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Stardust by Neil Gaiman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
