Books like A Raisin in the Sun
12 books with a reading profile close to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
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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2
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Lucia Berlin's collected short stories draw on her own life: a childhood in mining towns, years in El Paso and Chile, work as a cleaning woman, hospital switchboard operator and teacher, and struggles with alcoholism an…
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3
The Cherry Orchard
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
Madame Lyubov Ranevskaya returns to her family estate in Russia after years of exile in Paris to find her ancestral home facing public auction to pay off debts.
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4
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
This comprehensive collection gathers the full breadth of Hemingway’s short fiction, including the iconic Nick Adams adventures, vignettes from In Our Time, and posthumously published fragments.
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5
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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6
Dear Life
by Alice Munro
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Dear Life is Alice Munro's last collection, with ten stories of rural and small-town Canada.
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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
Stoner
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
William Stoner arrives at the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture but shifts his focus to English literature after encountering a Shakespearean sonnet.
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11
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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12
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy, Margaret R. Higonnet
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman living in the rural English countryside, discovers her family descends from the aristocratic d’Urberville line.
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