Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Sun Also Rises
The best books like The Sun Also Rises are A Moveable Feast, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Bell Jar. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is about disillusionment, lost generation, masculinity. 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.
- A Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway · Memoir
A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.
A kindred literary 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.
Both dig into disillusionment.
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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into disillusionment.
Read the summary → - My Struggle: Book 1
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Karl Ove Knausgaard · Literary fiction
My Struggle: Book 1 opens with a long meditation on death — the image of a dead face on television, the cultural rituals that hide corpses from view — before settling into what the book is actually about: Knausgaard's childhood in Norway in the 1970s and early 80s, and his adult journey to clean out the house where his alcoholic father died.
Both dig into masculinity.
Read the summary → - Père Goriot
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Honoré de Balzac · Classics
Père Goriot is the novel where Balzac's Human Comedy — his vast project of interlocking stories about French society — finds its moral and architectural center.
Both dig into disillusionment.
Read the summary → - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein · Memoir
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Both dig into expatriate life.
Read the summary → - The Magicians
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Lev Grossman · Fantasy
The Magicians follows Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant and deeply unhappy teenager from Brooklyn, who discovers that Brakebills College — a secret school of magic — is real, and that the fantasy world he's been obsessed with since childhood, Fillory (a Narnia analogue), is also real.
Both dig into disillusionment.
Read the summary → - The Right Stuff
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Tom Wolfe · Memoir
Tom Wolfe's account of the early years of American manned spaceflight — from the test pilots of Edwards Air Force Base to the Mercury Seven astronauts — is the most celebrated work of New Journalism and one of the essential books about American culture in the twentieth century.
Both dig into masculinity.
Read the summary → - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré · Thriller
Alec Leamas is a burnt-out British intelligence officer who has just watched his last agent shot dead at the Berlin Wall.
Both dig into disillusionment.
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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
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Books like The Sun Also Rises: quick answers
What are the best books like The Sun Also Rises?
The best books like The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway are A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Sun Also Rises, such as disillusionment, lost generation, masculinity.
What should I read after The Sun Also Rises?
A natural next read after The Sun Also Rises is A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
What books are similar to The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway?
The Sun Also Rises centers on disillusionment, lost generation, masculinity. Books with a similar feel include A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
