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12 books with a reading profile close to Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
2

A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Natalie Haynes reimagines the Trojan War through a choral narrative that centers the women, goddesses, and victims usually relegated to the margins of epic poetry.
3

Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
4

Amsterdam

by Ian McEwan

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

After the funeral of Molly Lane, her two former lovers—Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor—forge a mutual euthanasia pact to avoid a similar cognitive decline.
5

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

In this adaptation, Benjamin Button is born with the physical appearance and ailments of a seventy-year-old man, forcing his father to navigate social embarrassment in nineteenth-century Baltimore.
6

Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
7

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.
8

ILL - One flew over the cuckoo's nest

by Dale Wasserman

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

In Dale Wasserman’s 1970 stage adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel, the narrative centers on Randle P.
9

Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Six-year-old Antonio Márez grows up in a New Mexico village in the 1940s, in a household divided between his father's wandering family and his mother's farming one.
10

All My Sons

by Arthur Miller

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Set in the immediate aftermath of World War II, this drama centers on Joe Keller, a successful manufacturer who escaped conviction for shipping defective airplane cylinder heads that caused the deaths of twenty-one pilo…
11

Bel-Ami

by Guy de Maupassant

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Georges Duroy arrives in Paris as a penniless veteran with nothing but his appearance and a lack of scruples.
12

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Set in wartime Manhattan, the narrative follows an aspiring writer who becomes fascinated by his upstairs neighbor, Holly Golightly.

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