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12 books with a reading profile close to Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu by Stefan Zweig. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Lettres portugaises

by Gabriel de Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, classic literature

Published anonymously in 1669, this epistolary novel consists of five letters written by a Portuguese nun, Mariana Alcoforado, to an absent French officer named Noël Bouton de Chamilly.
2

If Beale Street Could Talk

by James Baldwin

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, classic literature

Set in 1970s Harlem, the story follows nineteen-year-old Tish Rivers and her fiancé, Fonny Hunt, an aspiring sculptor.
3

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, classic literature

In the twilight of the nineteenth century, Florentino Ariza falls into a lifelong obsession with Fermina Daza, a woman who eventually rejects his youthful advances to marry Dr.
4

Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, classic literature

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist are two young ranch hands who spend a summer in 1963 herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming.
5

The Lover

by Marguerite Duras

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, classic literature

Set in 1930s French Indochina, the narrative centers on a fifteen-year-old French girl from a financially destitute family who begins a clandestine affair with a wealthy Chinese heir.
6

Bonjour tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, classic literature

Seventeen-year-old Cécile spends a restless summer on the French Riviera with her widowed father, Raymond, and his current mistress, Elsa.
7

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, classic literature

Maurice Hall is a middle-class young man who goes to Cambridge, where he falls in love with Clive Durham, a fellow student.
8

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, classic literature

In 1920s Hong Kong, Kitty Fane enters a loveless marriage with Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, to escape her demanding mother.
9

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, classic literature

Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving with the Italian army during World War I, experiences the collapse of the front following the retreat from Caporetto.
10

Corinne

by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, classic literature

Set against the backdrop of an eighteenth-century Grand Tour, this novel centers on the intense intellectual and emotional connection between Lord Oswald Nelvil, a grieving Scottish aristocrat, and Corinne, a celebrated…
11

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, classic literature

Lily Bart is a beautiful but impoverished socialite navigating the rigid hierarchy of Gilded Age New York.
12

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, classic literature

Set in the years surrounding World War I, the narrative follows Amory Blaine, a wealthy and egoistic Midwesterner, from his pampered childhood through his education at Princeton University.

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