Books like By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
12 books with a reading profile close to By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
J.D.
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The Hour of the Star
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
In Rio de Janeiro, a self-absorbed narrator named Rodrigo S.M.
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Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
This collection of short stories documents the early development of Gabriel García Márquez’s narrative style before his shift into Macondo.
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Orlando
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
The narrative follows Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman who begins as a favorite of the court and lives for over three centuries without aging significantly.
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Woyzeck
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Franz Woyzeck is a low-ranking soldier stationed in a provincial German town, struggling to provide for his common-law wife, Marie, and their infant son.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
The poem recounts a sailor’s harrowing sea voyage that spirals into disaster after he shoots an albatross without provocation.
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
William Lee, a drug addict and fugitive, flees a narcotics investigation in the United States to seek refuge in the Interzone, a hallucinatory territory located in North Africa.
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Amerika
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Karl Rossmann is a teenager banished by his parents to America after a scandal with a maid.
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Clevinger's trial (from 'Catch-22')
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Joseph Heller’s standalone play, Clevinger’s Trial, adapts the eighth chapter of his novel Catch-22 into a rhythmic, one-act script.
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The Good Soldier
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
John Dowell, a wealthy American, narrates the decade-long history of his friendship with Edward Ashburnham, a British captain, and their respective wives, Florence and Leonora.
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The Golden Notebook
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Anna Wulf, an author living in 1950s London, attempts to counter her creative block and mental fragmentation by recording different facets of her life in four colored notebooks.
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