Books like Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
12 books with a reading profile close to Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace. Deep; a moderate read.
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Also deep · analytical, narrative
This collection of seven essays blends technical reporting with personal anxiety to examine how American mass culture consumes its participants.
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ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
Also deep · analytical, narrative
Omar El Akkad’s collection of essays examines the cognitive dissonance inherent in Western humanitarian responses to global atrocities.
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Edward Abbey recounts his seasons as a seasonal ranger at Arches National Monument in the late 1950s.
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The Solitaire Mystery
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Hans Thomas travels with his father from Norway to Greece to find his long-lost mother.
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Soumission
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Set in a near-future France, the narrative follows François, a lonely academic specializing in the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans.
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In Cold Blood
Also deep · analytical, narrative
In 1959, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith entered the Clutter family home in Holcomb, Kansas, and murdered four people.
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
by Jenny Odell
Also deep · analytical, philosophy
Jenny Odell argues that commercial platforms hijack human curiosity to monetize every waking second.
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Benjamín Labatut depicts the intersections between scientific discovery and psychological collapse through the lives of Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger.
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Eating Animals
analytical, philosophy
Jonathan Safran Foer began this investigation upon becoming a father, seeking to understand the industrial origin of the meat he would feed his son.
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Blindness
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
A sudden epidemic of "white blindness" strikes an unnamed city, leaving victims submerged in a milky void.
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Three Daughters of Eve
by Elif Shafak
philosophy, narrative
Peri is an Istanbul housewife in her thirties, married with a child, who is at a dinner party when a mugger takes her bag and she chases him.
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