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Books like This Is How You Lose Her
The best books like This Is How You Lose Her are The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, and The Things They Carried. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz is about infidelity and consequence, masculinity and shame, diaspora identity. 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.
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · Literary fiction
Oscar Wao is an overweight Dominican American nerd from New Jersey who wants nothing more than to find love and write fantasy novels.
Both dig into diaspora identity.
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.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Things They Carried
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Tim O'Brien · Memoir
Tim O'Brien served as a foot soldier in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970.
A kindred short stories read.
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.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Dubliners
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James Joyce · Short stories
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories set in Dublin in the early twentieth century, published in 1914 after nearly a decade of rejections and publisher disputes over its frank treatment of Irish life.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Exhalation: Stories
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Ted Chiang · Short stories
Exhalation: Stories is Ted Chiang's second collection, containing nine stories written between 2005 and 2019.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Ficciones
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Jorge Luis Borges · Short stories
Ficciones collects seventeen short stories and fictions by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in two parts in 1941 and 1944.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Interpreter of Maladies
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Jhumpa Lahiri · Short stories
Interpreter of Maladies is Jhumpa Lahiri's debut short story collection, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Stories of Your Life and Others
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · Short stories
Eight stories, all of them rigorously thought-out, many of them devastating.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · Short stories
Twelve stories, first published in The Strand Magazine between 1891 and 1892, collected here in their original order: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - The Last Wish
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Andrzej Sapkowski · Short stories
The Last Wish is the first Witcher book to be published in English, though not the first written, and it introduces readers to Geralt of Rivia — a professional monster-hunter in a world that is running out of the kind of monsters worth hunting.
A kindred short stories read.
Read the summary → - Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
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Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
Agatha Christie · Short stories
Witness for the Prosecution collects some of Agatha Christie's finest short fiction, anchored by the title story: a courtroom thriller in which a barrister defending a man accused of murder finds his confidence undermined by one of the most audacious plot reversals in crime fiction.
A kindred short stories read.
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Books like This Is How You Lose Her: quick answers
What are the best books like This Is How You Lose Her?
The best books like This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz are The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi, Dubliners by James Joyce, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with This Is How You Lose Her, such as infidelity and consequence, masculinity and shame, diaspora identity.
What should I read after This Is How You Lose Her?
A natural next read after This Is How You Lose Her is The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. Both dig into diaspora identity. Other strong choices are The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi.
What books are similar to This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz?
This Is How You Lose Her centers on infidelity and consequence, masculinity and shame, diaspora identity. Books with a similar feel include The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi, Dubliners by James Joyce, Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
