Books like Cathedral
12 books with a reading profile close to Cathedral by Raymond Carver. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Blanche DuBois, a displaced schoolteacher with a fragile mental state, arrives at the cramped New Orleans apartment of her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
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The Lowland
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Subhash and Udayan are brothers born in Calcutta, separated by temperament and political conviction.
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Lucia Berlin's collected short stories draw on her own life: a childhood in mining towns, years in El Paso and Chile, work as a cleaning woman, hospital switchboard operator and teacher, and struggles with alcoholism an…
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Johnny Got His Gun
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, wakes up in a hospital bed to discover he is a victim of a massive artillery shell explosion.
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Tokyo Ueno Station
by Yū Miri
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Kazu is a ghost who haunts the grounds of Tokyo’s Ueno Park, mirroring the era he spent living there as a homeless laborer.
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The Bluest Eye
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in 1941 Lorain, Ohio, the narrative focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a young Black girl who internalizes the white standards of beauty dominant in her community.
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No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Short Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
The title novella follows a retired veteran who visits the post office every Friday, expecting a pension check that never arrives.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, and recounts her life to her friend Pheoby Watson.
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The Sun Also Rises
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris, lives with a physical wound from the Great War that leaves him impotent.
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Train Dreams
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Robert Grainier is a day laborer in the American West during the early twentieth century.
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La tregua
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office worker, is nearing retirement.
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