Books like 100 Selected Poems
12 books with a reading profile close to 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.
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Weather
by Jenny Offill
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Lizzie Benson is a university librarian and former addict who begins answering mail for a climate change podcast hosted by her old mentor.
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Time Shelter
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gospodinov's novel imagines a Swiss-run clinic that treats Alzheimer's patients by recreating the decade of their youth, with floors that look like the 1960s, 1970s and so on.
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Faye, a British novelist, travels to Athens during a summer heatwave to teach a week-long creative writing course.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln visits a Georgetown cemetery to mourn his young son, Willie, who has just died of typhoid fever.
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Invisible Cities
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
In a garden within the Mongol dynasty, the aging ruler Kublai Khan listens to Marco Polo describe the far-flung outposts of an expanding empire.
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The Guest Cat
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
A married couple in a Tokyo suburb, both freelance writers with no children, live in a small rented cottage.
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Bluets
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Maggie Nelson constructs this book as a series of 240 numbered prose poems centered on her obsession with the color blue.
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The Wall
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
A woman is staying at a hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps with relatives when she wakes to find that an invisible, impassable wall has cut off the valley, and everything beyond it appears dead.
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The Argonauts
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
The Argonauts documents the evolving relationship between Maggie Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, focusing on their domestic life during Dodge’s gender transition and Nelson’s pregnancy.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Milan Kundera's novel is composed of seven parts which are linked by themes of memory, forgetting and the exercise of power.
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Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
In this verse novel, Anne Carson reimagines a fragment of Greek mythology through the eyes of Geryon, a red winged monster.
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