Books like Chess Story
12 books with a reading profile close to Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, Peter Gay, Joel Rotenberg, Стефан Цвайг. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a 1930s Georgia mill town, the narrative centers on John Singer, a deaf-mute man who becomes the silent confidant for four disparate neighbors.
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Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Hedda Gabler returns from a honeymoon to a life of stifling domesticity and debt alongside her academic husband, George Tesman.
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3
Franny and Zooey
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in Manhattan during the 1950s, the narrative centers on two siblings of the brilliant Glass family as they navigate a shared spiritual crisis.
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4
No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
The narrative follows Yozo Oba, a young man who feels physically and mentally alienated from the human race.
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5
Death of a Salesman
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Willy Loman is an aging traveling salesman in Brooklyn whose mental health is fracturing under the weight of professional failure and debt.
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The Catcher in the Rye
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Holden Caulfield, a teenage boy recently expelled from Pencey Prep, wanders through New York City over a cold December weekend.
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The hours
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
In 1923 England, Virginia Woolf struggles with debilitating headaches while writing the first sentences of Mrs.
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Sophie’s Choice
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
In 1947 Brooklyn, a young aspiring writer named Stingo moves into a boarding house and becomes entangled in the volatile relationship between Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, and Nathan Landa…
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9
The Remains of the Day
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
In 1956, Stevens, an aging butler at Darlington Hall, takes a six-day motoring trip through the English West Country.
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10
Revolutionary Road
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Frank and April Wheeler live in a Connecticut suburb, maintaining a surface of intellectual superiority over their neighbors while struggling with internal stagnation.
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11
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Edna Pontellier lives within the rigid social structures of late nineteenth-century Louisiana, moving between the French Quarter in New Orleans and the vacation community of Grand Isle.
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12
A Single Man
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in Southern California during the early 1960s, the novel follows twenty-four hours in the life of George, a middle-aged British professor grieving the sudden death of his partner, Jim.
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