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Books like White Noise
The best books like White Noise are Homage to Catalonia, The Power of Now, and Man's Search for Meaning. White Noise by Don DeLillo is about death anxiety, consumer culture, media and reality. 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.
- 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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Power of Now
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Eckhart Tolle · Religion & Spirituality
The Power of Now is Eckhart Tolle's argument that the root of human suffering is identification with the stream of thought — the restless inner commentary that most people mistake for who they are.
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 → - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande · Health
Being Mortal is Atul Gawande's investigation into why modern medicine is so bad at helping people die well.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Homo Deus picks up where Sapiens left off, but turns to face the other direction.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Shop Class as Soulcraft
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Matthew B. Crawford · Philosophy
Shop Class as Soulcraft grew out of a paradox in its author's life: Matthew Crawford earned a PhD in political philosophy, briefly ran a Washington think tank he found soul-deadening, and then opened a motorcycle repair shop — and found the shop more intellectually alive than the office.
Both dig into consumer culture.
Read the summary → - The Language of Things
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Deyan Sudjic · Philosophy
The Language of Things is Deyan Sudjic's examination of how designed objects communicate — not just what they are functionally, but what they say about identity, desire, status, and culture.
Both dig into consumer culture.
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.
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.
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Books like White Noise: quick answers
What are the best books like White Noise?
The best books like White Noise by Don DeLillo are Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with White Noise, such as death anxiety, consumer culture, media and reality.
What should I read after White Noise?
A natural next read after White Noise is Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande.
What books are similar to White Noise by Don DeLillo?
White Noise centers on death anxiety, consumer culture, media and reality. Books with a similar feel include Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
