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Books like The Silmarillion

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien is about creation and destruction, pride and hubris, loss and grief. 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 Alchemist
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    The Alchemist

    Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality

    The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.

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  2. The Divine Comedy: Inferno
    The Divine Comedy: Inferno

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    The Divine Comedy: Inferno

    Dante Alighieri · Philosophy

    The Inferno is the first of three canticles in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, written between approximately 1308 and 1320.

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  3. War and Peace
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    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy · Literary fiction

    War and Peace follows five aristocratic Russian families across fifteen years of Napoleonic war and peace, from the drawing rooms of St.

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  4. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Yuval Noah Harari · History

    Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.

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  5. A Court of Mist and Fury
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    A Court of Mist and Fury

    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.

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  6. A Court of Thorns and Roses
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    A Court of Thorns and Roses

    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.

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