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Books like A Tale for the Time Being

12 books with a reading profile close to A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Genly Ai arrives on the frozen planet Gethen as an envoy representing the Ekumen, a coalition of human worlds.
2

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative

Klara is an Artificial Friend, a solar-powered solar-observing android waiting in a storefront to be chosen by a child.
3

Yol

by Cormac McCarthy

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

A father and his son are the only characters who really matter in this novel.
4

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

An unnamed father and his young son walk southward through a scorched American landscape years after an unspecified cataclysm.
5

Snow

by Orhan Pamuk

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Ka, an exiled poet, returns to Turkey to investigate a series of suicides among young women in the border city of Kars.
6

The Book of Strange New Things

by Michel Faber

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, science fiction

Peter Leigh, a dedicated Christian pastor, leaves his wife Beatrice on a crumbling, disaster-stricken Earth to travel to the planet Oasis.
7

The Book of Form and Emptiness

by Ruth Ozeki

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative

Following the sudden death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear the voices of inanimate objects.
8

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative

In 1962, Philip K.
9

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Annie Dillard uses her home in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley as an observatory to document the biological mechanics of the natural world.
10

A Scanner Darkly

by Philip K. Dick

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction

Bob Arctor is a narcotics agent living undercover in a drug-addicted suburban household in a near-future California.
11

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North

philosophy, narrative

Harry August is a kalachakra, a man who lives his life in a loop.
12

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

George Orr lives in a future Portland where his dreams physically alter reality.

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