Books like Beloved
12 books with a reading profile close to Beloved by Toni Morrison. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
This sequence of 154 sonnets follows a tripartite structure involving three distinct figures.
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2
Dubliners
by James Joyce
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
James Joyce’s collection of fifteen short stories chronicles the daily lives of middle-class Irish citizens at the turn of the twentieth century.
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3
A Mercy
Also deep and inward-looking · history, dense
In the 1680s, a Virginia trader named Jacob Vaark takes a small girl, Florens, as payment for a debt, and brings her to his farm.
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4
Sentimental Education
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Frédéric Moreau moves to mid-nineteenth-century Paris with vague ambitions of artistic and social success.
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5
Lord Jim
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Jim, a young First Mate on the steamer Patna, abandons his ship and hundreds of sleeping pilgrims after a collision.
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6
Plays (37)
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
This collection compiles the complete dramatic output of William Shakespeare as cataloged in high-eighteenth-century editions, containing thirty-seven distinct scripts categorized into comedies, histories, and tragedies.
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7
The Street of Crocodiles
by Bruno Schulz
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
In a fictionalized version of the Polish city Drogobych, a narrator recounts his childhood centered on his father’s eccentric decline.
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8
Nausea
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Antoine Roquentin, a secluded historian living in the port town of Bouvile, becomes obsessed with a visceral physical sensation he calls the Nausea.
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9
Women in Love
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Set in an English industrial town following the Great War, the narrative follows the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, as they navigate complex relationships with two friends, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich.
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The Waves
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
The Waves follows six friends—Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis—from childhood through late adulthood.
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11
Another Country
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Set in mid-century Greenwich Village and Harlem, the narrative begins with the suicide of Rufus Scott, a Black jazz percussionist broken by poverty and a volatile interracial relationship.
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12
WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Wilhelm Meister begins as a merchant’s son who abandons his family’s commercial expectations to join a troupe of traveling actors.
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