Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Story of a New Name
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante is about female ambition, class and escape, friendship and rivalry. 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.
- Lila
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Marilynne Robinson · Literary fiction
Lila is the third novel set in Gilead, Iowa, and it arrives as a prequel and companion to both Gilead and Home.
Read the summary → - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi · Memoir
Azar Nafisi spent years teaching literature at universities in Tehran before the restrictions on what she could teach — and who she could teach — became intolerable.
Read the summary → - The Bell Jar
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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.
Read the summary → - The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston · Memoir
The Woman Warrior is not a conventional memoir.
Read the summary → - A Farewell to Arms
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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.
Read the summary → - A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry · Literary fiction
A Fine Balance is set in an unnamed Indian city during Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975–1977, a period of suspended democracy, forced sterilization, and slum clearances that is barely taught in the West and barely taught in India.
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