Books like The Bell Jar
If you liked The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift…
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Treasure Island
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Jim Hawkins finds Flint's map, sails with Squire Trelawney's crew that hides pirates, and learns Long John Silver is both cook, friend, and…
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Angelou recalls Stamps, St Louis and San Francisco, from childhood silence after trauma to voice through books and work.
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The Color Purple
Because shares tags: classics, feminism.
Celie writes letters to God and to her sister, surviving abuse in the rural South to find her own voice.
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Siddhartha
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
A Brahmin son leaves home to find peace beyond teachers and rules.
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Great Expectations
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.
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A Walk to Remember
Because shares tags: coming of age, 1950s.
Bad boy Landon falls for pastor's daughter Jamie in 1950s North Carolina.
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Anne of Green Gables
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
L. M. Montgomery brings talkative Anne Shirley to Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, where mistakes, school rivalries, and fierce…
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Because shares tags: coming of age, mental health.
Chbosky's Perks retold: Charlie's letters, Sam and Patrick, first year of high school in Pittsburgh.
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The Outsiders
Because shares tags: coming of age, classics.
Outsiders retold: Ponyboy and greasers vs Socs, church fire, rumble, stay gold ache.
