Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Till We Have Faces
The best books like Till We Have Faces are The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, and Siddhartha. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis is about jealousy and love, self-knowledge and self-deception, the silence of the gods. 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 Screwtape Letters
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C. S. Lewis · Religion & Spirituality
The Screwtape Letters is C.
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Read the summary → - Mere Christianity
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C. S. Lewis · Philosophy
Mere Christianity began as a series of BBC radio broadcasts Lewis gave during World War II, and the book retains that quality of direct, informal address.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Siddhartha
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Hermann Hesse · Religion & Spirituality
Siddhartha is Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel of spiritual seeking, written at a time when Hesse was deeply studying Buddhist and Hindu texts.
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- The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald · Classics
The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner who moves to Long Island in the summer of 1922 and finds himself adjacent to the fabulous, mysterious parties of his neighbor Jay Gatsby.
A kindred literary fiction read.
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.
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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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Little Life
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Hanya Yanagihara · Literary fiction
A Little Life follows four men from college into middle age and beyond — Willem, an actor; JB, a painter; Malcolm, an architect; and Jude, a lawyer with a past that is revealed in increasingly devastating detail as the novel progresses.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · Literary fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus from early childhood to the edge of adulthood, when he leaves Ireland to pursue life as an artist.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Thousand Acres
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Jane Smiley · Literary fiction
A Thousand Acres retells King Lear on a thousand-acre Iowa farm in the 1970s.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan · Literary fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a novel told in thirteen chapters, each from a different point of view and sometimes in a radically different form — including one chapter composed entirely as a PowerPoint presentation.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · Literary fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins where Tom Sawyer left off — Huck Finn, the outcast son of the town drunk, has been taken in and given a respectable life he doesn't want.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - American Pastoral
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Philip Roth · Literary fiction
American Pastoral opens with a narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, learning at a high school reunion about the life and death of Seymour "the Swede" Levov — a man who embodied postwar American success so completely he seemed almost allegorical.
A kindred literary fiction read.
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Books like Till We Have Faces: quick answers
What are the best books like Till We Have Faces?
The best books like Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis are The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Till We Have Faces, such as jealousy and love, self-knowledge and self-deception, the silence of the gods.
What should I read after Till We Have Faces?
A natural next read after Till We Have Faces is The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What books are similar to Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis?
Till We Have Faces centers on jealousy and love, self-knowledge and self-deception, the silence of the gods. Books with a similar feel include The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
