Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Waves
The Waves by Virginia Woolf is about identity and self, time and mortality, consciousness. 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.
- Mrs Dalloway
01
Virginia Woolf · Literary fiction
Mrs Dalloway takes place over the course of a single June day in London in 1923, following Clarissa Dalloway — the wife of a politician, preparing for an evening party — and Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran who never intersects with Clarissa but exists in parallel throughout the novel.
Read the summary → - To the Lighthouse
02
Virginia Woolf · Literary fiction
To the Lighthouse is divided into three parts.
Read the summary → - Being and Nothingness
03
Jean-Paul Sartre · Philosophy
Being and Nothingness is Sartre's major philosophical treatise and the founding text of French existentialism.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
04
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.
Read the summary → - A Farewell to Arms
05
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
06
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.
Read the summary →
