Books like…

Books Like Sophie's Choice

by William Styron · about this book

Loved Sophie's Choice by William Styron? If its literary fiction, tragic and holocaust hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Complete Maus, The Kite Runner and All the Broken Places. 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 Sophie's Choice: Literary Fiction · Tragic · Holocaust · Survivor's Guilt · Emotional

1. 

   The Complete Maus

   Art Spiegelman

   World War II · Survivor's Guilt · Tragic · War Atrocities · Genocide Depicted

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   The Kite Runner

   Khaled Hosseini

   Survivor's Guilt · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Writer Protagonist · Historical Fiction

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   All the Broken Places

   John Boyne

   Survivor's Guilt · World War II · Genocide Depicted · Tragic · Historical Fiction

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4. 

   Atonement

   Ian McEwan

   World War II · Writer Protagonist · Tragic · Survivor's Guilt · Literary Fiction

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5. 

   The Diary of a Young Girl

   Anne Frank

   World War II · Tragic · Writer Protagonist · Genocide Depicted · Emotional

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6. 

   The Nightingale

   Kristin Hannah

   World War II · War Trauma · Tragic · War Atrocities · Historical Fiction

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7. 

   A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

   Anthony Marra

   Tragic · Survivor's Guilt · War Atrocities · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction

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8. 

   The Book Thief

   Markus Zusak

   World War II · Tragic · Genocide Depicted · Classics · Literary Fiction

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9. 

   The Things We Cannot Say

   Kelly Rimmer

   Holocaust · World War II · War Atrocities · Genocide Depicted · Historical Fiction

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10. 

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Tragic · New York City · Literary Fiction · Classics · Historical Fiction

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11. 

    Human Acts

    Han Kang

    Survivor's Guilt · Tragic · War Atrocities · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction

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12. 

    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Tragic · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Classics · First Person Narrator

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13. 

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Tragic · Dense Prose · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Emotional

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14. 

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    Stephen Graham Jones

    Genocide Depicted · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator · Dense Prose

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15. 

    Strange the Dreamer

    Laini Taylor

    War Atrocities · Genocide Depicted · Survivor's Guilt · Emotional · Dense Prose

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16. 

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Tragic · Literary Fiction · Love Triangle · Classics · Emotional

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17. 

    Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Tragic · Classics · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · First Person Narrator

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18. 

    The Last Rose of Shanghai

    Weina Dai Randel

    World War II · War Atrocities · Historical Fiction · Emotional · Tragic

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19. 

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

    Tragic · Literary Fiction · Emotional · Classics · Historical Fiction

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20. 

    Interview with the Vampire

    Anne Rice

    American South · Tragic · Classics · First Person Narrator · Dark

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