Contemporary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Wonder
The best books like Wonder are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, and A Wrinkle in Time. Wonder by R.J. Palacio is about kindness and cruelty, belonging and difference, family and support. 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 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · Contemporary fiction
Christopher John Francis Boone is fifteen years old, knows all the prime numbers up to 7,057, and has decided to investigate who killed his neighbor's dog with a garden fork.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
William N. Thorndike · Business
The Outsiders profiles eight CEOs whose long-term returns to shareholders dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 and their industry peers, often by factors of ten to one hundred.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle · Fantasy
A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry, a prickly, self-doubting teenager whose father — a physicist working on a classified government project — has been missing for years.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Educated: A Memoir
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Tara Westover · Memoir
Educated is Tara Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD in history from Cambridge University.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
A Man Called Ove opens in a Swedish suburb where a fifty-nine-year-old man named Ove has just been forced into early retirement.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Anxious People
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
Anxious People begins with a failed bank robbery.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beach Read
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Emily Henry · Contemporary fiction
January Andrews is a romance novelist who has completely lost faith in love after discovering her late father had a secret mistress for years.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beartown
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
Beartown is a dying town in rural Sweden whose only remaining source of identity and pride is its youth hockey program.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Book Lovers
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Emily Henry · Contemporary fiction
Nora Stephens is a literary agent in New York who is professionally excellent and personally guarded.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Carrie Soto Is Back
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Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction
Carrie Soto is a retired tennis legend with twenty Grand Slam titles, the most in history — until a young player named Nicki Chan wins her twenty-first and breaks Carrie's record.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Daisy Jones & The Six
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Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction
Daisy Jones & The Six is structured as an oral history — a transcript of interviews with the members of a fictional 1970s rock band, reconstructing how they rose, created their defining album, and then spectacularly fell apart in a single night in 1979.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Dial A for Aunties
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Jesse Q. Sutanto · Contemporary fiction
Medeline Meddelin — Meddelin Chan — accidentally kills her blind date and calls her mother.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
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Books like Wonder: quick answers
What are the best books like Wonder?
The best books like Wonder by R.J. Palacio are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Wonder, such as kindness and cruelty, belonging and difference, family and support.
What should I read after Wonder?
A natural next read after Wonder is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover.
What books are similar to Wonder by R.J. Palacio?
Wonder centers on kindness and cruelty, belonging and difference, family and support. Books with a similar feel include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
