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Books like The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is about disillusionment, lost generation, masculinity. 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. A Moveable Feast
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    A Moveable Feast

    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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. The Bell Jar
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    The Bell Jar

    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.

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  4. Man's Search for Meaning
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    Man's Search for Meaning

    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.

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  5. Homage to Catalonia
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    Homage to Catalonia

    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.

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  6. A Farewell to Arms
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    A Farewell to Arms

    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.

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