Books like All Quiet on the Western Front
If you liked All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Because shares tags: historical fiction, literary fiction, coming of age.
Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See retold: blind Marie-Laure, Werner the radio boy, and Saint-Malo.
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War and Peace
Because shares tags: classics, historical fiction, war.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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Things Fall Apart
Because shares tags: classics, historical fiction, literary fiction.
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction, coming of age.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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A Farewell to Arms
Because shares tags: classics, war, historical fiction.
Frederic loves Catherine in Italy until desertion leads to Switzerland and stillbirth.
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The Sun Also Rises
Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction, war.
Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.
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Beloved
Because shares tags: classics, historical fiction, literary fiction.
Sethe lives with the memory of killing her child to save her from slavery until a young woman named Beloved arrives.
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The Kite Runner
Because shares tags: historical fiction, literary fiction, coming of age.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner retold: Amir and Hassan in Kabul, the alley, the escape to America, and the return to find Sohrab.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, historical fiction.
Huck Finn fakes his death, floats the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, and tears up the letter that would betray him. Twain's river…
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Ender's Game
Because shares tags: war, coming of age, classics.
Ender Wiggin trains at Battle School to fight the Formics, winning games that turn out to be real.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Because shares tags: historical fiction, war, literary fiction.
Splendid Suns retold: Mariam and Laila share Kabul house, war, Rasheed, escape and return.
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The Catcher in the Rye
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, literary fiction.
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye explained: Holden's weekend in New York, the phony adults, Phoebe's carousel, and why readers keep…
