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Books Like A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway · about this book

Loved A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway? If its world war i, sparse prose and classics hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Of Mice and Men, The Outsiders and The Song of Achilles. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside A Farewell to Arms: World War I · Sparse Prose · Classics · War Zone · Male Lead

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   Of Mice and Men

   John Steinbeck

   Sparse Prose · Tragic · Classics · Dialogue-Heavy · Bleak

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   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Tragic · Classics · Sparse Prose · Character-Driven · Male Lead

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   The Song of Achilles

   Madeline Miller

   Tragic · War Zone · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator · Male Lead

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   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Tragic · Classics · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Bittersweet

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   The Complete Maus

   Art Spiegelman

   Tragic · Classics · Bleak · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator

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   Post Office

   Charles Bukowski

   Sparse Prose · Classics · Dialogue-Heavy · Literary Fiction · Bleak

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   The Nightingale

   Kristin Hannah

   War Zone · Tragic · Character-Driven · Bittersweet · Literary Fiction

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   Life After Life

   Kate Atkinson

   Infant Loss Content · War Zone · World War I · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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   A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

   Anthony Marra

   War Zone · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Emotional

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    The Catcher in the Rye

    Jerome David Salinger

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Dialogue-Heavy · Male Lead

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    The Stranger

    Albert Camus

    Sparse Prose · Bleak · Classics · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator

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    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

    War Zone · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Classics · First Person Narrator

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13. 

    The Dead Don't Dance

    Charles Martin

    Infant Loss Content · Character-Driven · Bittersweet · First Person Narrator · Male Lead

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    The Bookbinder

    Pip Williams

    World War I · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Bittersweet · First Person Narrator

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    The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

    Sparse Prose · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Bittersweet · First Person Narrator

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    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Tragic · War Zone · Literary Fiction · Emotional · Classics

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    A Far Better Thing

    H.G. Parry

    Tragic · Bittersweet · Character-Driven · Male Lead · Literary Fiction

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18. 

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

    Tragic · Bleak · Classics · Literary Fiction · Emotional

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    Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Tragic · Classics · Bleak · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator

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    Matterhorn

    Karl Marlantes

    War Zone · Bleak · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Male Lead

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