Books like A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
12 books with a reading profile close to A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda. Deep; a moderate read.
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Also deep · philosophy, psychology
Presented as an anthropological field report, the text follows Carlos Castaneda’s apprenticeship under a Yaqui shaman named don Juan Matus.
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Asterios Polyp
Also deep · psychology, experimental
Asterios Polyp is a high-concept architect who has never seen one of his blueprints actually constructed.
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Surfacing
Also deep · psychology, experimental
An unnamed female protagonist returns to her childhood home on a desolate island in northern Quebec to investigate her father's unexplained disappearance.
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Also deep · philosophy, psychology
In this collection of essays, Aldous Huxley documents his 1953 experiments with mescaline under clinical supervision.
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Weather
by Jenny Offill
Also deep · philosophy, experimental
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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Il fu Mattia Pascal
Also deep · philosophy, psychology
Mattia Pascal, a small-town librarian in Italy, is trapped in a miserable marriage and weighed down by his mother-in-law's temper.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney, Octavi Gil Pujol
Also deep · philosophy, psychology
Alice, a novelist recovering from a psychiatric collapse, moves to a quiet Irish coastal town where she pursues a relationship with Felix, a local warehouse worker.
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The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa
Also deep · philosophy, experimental
On an unnamed island, objects disappear from public life and collective memory.
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Homesick for Another World
psychology, experimental
Ottessa Moshfegh’s short story collection tracks the internal lives of social outcasts, addicts, and neighborhood creeps inhabiting gritty urban landscapes and neglected suburbs.
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Freshwater
Also deep · psychology, experimental
Adaeke Emezi’s debut novel focuses on Ada, a young Nigerian woman born with fractured consciousness.
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
psychology, experimental
Rosemary Cooke begins her college years by narrating her family's collapse, a disintegration sparked by the disappearance of her sister Fern and her brother Lowell.
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