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12 books with a reading profile close to Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist are two young ranch hands who spend a summer in 1963 herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming.
2

Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

by Stefan Zweig

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

A famous Viennese novelist receives a long letter on his birthday from a woman he does not remember.
3

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Maurice Hall is a middle-class young man who goes to Cambridge, where he falls in love with Clive Durham, a fellow student.
4

Lettres portugaises

by Gabriel de Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

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.
5

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

In 1920s Hong Kong, Kitty Fane enters a loveless marriage with Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, to escape her demanding mother.
6

Corinne

by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

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…
7

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

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.
8

If Beale Street Could Talk

by James Baldwin

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Set in 1970s Harlem, the story follows nineteen-year-old Tish Rivers and her fiancé, Fonny Hunt, an aspiring sculptor.
9

The Lover

by Marguerite Duras

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

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.
10

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

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.
11

La dame aux camélias

by Alexandre Dumas fils

Also inward-looking · romance, literary

Set in mid-19th-century Paris, this novel recounts the tragic affair between Armand Duval, a young bourgeois lawyer, and Marguerite Gautier, a high-class courtesan known for her constant companion camellias.
12

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

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.

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