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Books like Burial Rites

12 books with a reading profile close to Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer

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

The story begins in 1974 at a summer arts camp where six teenagers—Jules, Ash, Goodman, Ethan, Jonah, and Cathy—form a tight-knit circle based on their shared creative ambitions.
2

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

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

Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
3

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

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

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.
4

Galatea

by Madeline Miller

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

In this short story, a statue carved from ivory is granted life by a goddess, becoming the wife of her creator, Pygmalion.
5

A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

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.
6

Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
7

Silver Sparrow

by Tayari Jones

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

Dana Yarboro knows her father, James Witherspoon, has another family.
8

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

Also inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Edgar Sawtelle is born mute in rural Wisconsin, into a family that breeds a special line of dogs, the Sawtelle dogs, chosen for their intelligence and character.
9

Hag-Seed

by Margaret Atwood

narrative, classic literature

Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.
10

Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
11

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

by Truman Capote

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

The title novella follows an unnamed narrator in wartime New York who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
12

Amsterdam

by Ian McEwan

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

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.

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