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Books like The Plot Against America
The best books like The Plot Against America are Homage to Catalonia, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Warmth of Other Suns. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth is about fascism and american democracy, antisemitism, fear and family. 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 historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · History
All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Warmth of Other Suns
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Isabel Wilkerson · Memoir
Isabel Wilkerson's account of the Great Migration — the movement of six million Black Americans from the South to the North and West between 1915 and 1970 — is one of the most important works of narrative nonfiction published in the twenty-first century.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Between the World and Me
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Ta-Nehisi Coates · Memoir
Between the World and Me is a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son, Samori, about what it means to live in a Black body in the United States.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank · Memoir
Anne Frank's diary, kept during the two years she spent hiding with her family in a concealed Amsterdam apartment, stands as one of the most widely read first-person accounts of the Holocaust.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen · History
Hitler's Willing Executioners is Daniel Goldhagen's argument that the Holocaust was made possible by a specifically German form of antisemitism — what he calls "eliminationist antisemitism" — that was so deeply embedded in German culture by the twentieth century that ordinary Germans participated in the genocide willingly, not reluctantly, and often with evident enthusiasm.
Both dig into antisemitism.
Read the summary → - The Finkler Question
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Howard Jacobson · Literary fiction
The Finkler Question opens with Julian Treslove, a failed actor turned celebrity lookalike, being mugged by a woman who he believes calls him a Jew as she flees.
Both dig into antisemitism.
Read the summary → - The Origins of Totalitarianism
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt · History
Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, just six years after the end of World War II.
Both dig into antisemitism.
Read the summary → - The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James · Horror
A young governess is sent to an isolated English country house to care for two children, Miles and Flora, whose guardian — a charming, absent man in London — has made clear he does not want to be bothered.
Both dig into childhood and innocence.
Read the summary → - To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee · Literary fiction
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch is six years old at the start of the novel and nine by the end.
Both dig into childhood and innocence.
Read the summary → - A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles · Historical fiction
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal — not to death, but to permanent house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens · Historical fiction
A Tale of Two Cities is set against the French Revolution and follows three intertwined characters: Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who has renounced his title and family legacy; Lucie Manette, the daughter of a man who spent eighteen years imprisoned in the Bastille; and Sydney Carton, a dissolute English lawyer who loves Lucie without hope and knows he will never be the man Darnay already is.
A kindred historical fiction read.
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Books like The Plot Against America: quick answers
What are the best books like The Plot Against America?
The best books like The Plot Against America by Philip Roth are Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Plot Against America, such as fascism and american democracy, antisemitism, fear and family.
What should I read after The Plot Against America?
A natural next read after The Plot Against America is Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. A kindred historical fiction read. Other strong choices are All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
What books are similar to The Plot Against America by Philip Roth?
The Plot Against America centers on fascism and american democracy, antisemitism, fear and family. Books with a similar feel include Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
