Books like A Month in the Country
12 books with a reading profile close to A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Train Dreams
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Robert Grainier is a day laborer in the American West during the early twentieth century.
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2
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a crumbling house in the Himalayas against the 1980s Gorkhaland insurgency, the narrative follows Biju and Sai.
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3
Out Stealing Horses
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man, has moved to a remote cabin in eastern Norway to live alone with his dog.
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4
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, and recounts her life to her friend Pheoby Watson.
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5
Black Swan Green
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates thirteen months of adolescence in a claustrophobic Worcestershire village during 1982.
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6
Tokyo Ueno Station
by Yū Miri
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Kazu is a ghost who haunts the grounds of Tokyo’s Ueno Park, mirroring the era he spent living there as a homeless laborer.
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7
Winesburg, Ohio
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century, this collection of interconnected stories centers on George Willard, a young reporter for the local newspaper.
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8
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
John Wheelwright narrates the life of his best friend, Owen Meany, a boy with a high-pitched voice who accidentally kills John’s mother with a foul ball during a Little League game in 1953.
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9
Martin Eden
by Jack London
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Martin Eden, a coarse and uneducated sailor, decides to overhaul his entire identity after meeting Ruth Morse, a woman from a refined bourgeois family.
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10
Johnny Got His Gun
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, wakes up in a hospital bed to discover he is a victim of a massive artillery shell explosion.
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11
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Short Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
The title novella follows a retired veteran who visits the post office every Friday, expecting a pension check that never arrives.
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12
The Sun Also Rises
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris, lives with a physical wound from the Great War that leaves him impotent.
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