Books like Caim
12 books with a reading profile close to Caim by José Saramago. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
In Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," an explorer witnesses a brutal execution machine in a remote penal colony.
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2
Measure for Measure
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Duke Vincentio departs Vienna under a pretext of travel, leaving the puritanical Angelo to enforce long-ignored moral laws.
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3
The Wall
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Sartre's collection takes its name from the title story, set during the Spanish Civil War.
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4
A Scanner Darkly
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Bob Arctor is a narcotics agent living undercover in a drug-addicted suburban household in a near-future California.
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5
Waiting for the Barbarians
by J.M. Coetzee
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
A magistrate runs a small frontier town in an unnamed empire.
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6
Island
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
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7
No Exit
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Set in a single room furnished with Second Empire sofas, the play follows three deceased individuals—Garcin, Inès, and Estelle—as they realize they are their own torturers.
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8
Antigone
by Jean Anouilh
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Jean Anouilh's play, first staged in occupied Paris in 1944, retells Sophocles.
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Faye, a British novelist, travels to Athens during a summer heatwave to teach a week-long creative writing course.
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10
Machines like Me
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
In a version of 1982 where Britain lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is alive and artificial intelligence has advanced a long way.
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Il visconte dimezzato
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
During a war against the Turks in Bohemia, a young nobleman, Viscount Medardo of Terralba, is split down the middle by a cannonball.
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Die Physiker
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
The play takes place within the Les Cerisiers sanatorium, where three physicists reside as patients under the care of Dr.
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