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12 books with a reading profile close to A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Silk and Insight

by Yukio Mishima

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set in 1950s Japan, this novel dramatizes the labor dispute at a major textile factory to examine the reality of industrial paternalism.
2

Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Jay Gatsby spends his life accumulating wealth through criminal channels to reclaim a past romance with Daisy Buchanan.
3

Prodigal Summer

by Barbara Kingsolver

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

In the humid mountains of southern Appalachia, three narrative threads intersect through the lens of evolutionary biology and ecological interdependence.
4

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Professor Henry Higgins, a specialist in phonetics, bets that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a duchess by altering her speech and manners.
5

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, these interconnected novels follow the lives of two boys navigating the constraints of antebellum society.
6

Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
7

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

by Ernest Hemingway

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Harry, a writer dying of gangrene while on an African safari, lies at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro and catalogues his professional failures.
8

Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
9

Bel-Ami

by Guy de Maupassant

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Georges Duroy arrives in Paris as a penniless veteran with nothing but his appearance and a lack of scruples.
10

Assommoir

by Émile Zola

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

L’Assommoir documents the physical and moral decline of Gervaise Macquart, a laundress striving for domestic stability in the slums of Second Empire Paris.
11

Let the Great World Spin

by Colum McCann

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set in New York City during August 1974, the narrative centers on Philippe Petit’s unauthorized tightrope walk between the Twin Towers.
12

A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Natalie Haynes reimagines the Trojan War through a choral narrative that centers the women, goddesses, and victims usually relegated to the margins of epic poetry.

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