Books like Cosmicomics
12 books with a reading profile close to Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino. Deep, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Also deep and contemplative · science fiction, classic literature
Billy Pilgrim is an American chaplain’s assistant who becomes "unstuck in time" after his capture by German soldiers during World War II.
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Slaughterhouse-Five The Children's Crusade
Also deep and contemplative · science fiction, classic literature
Billy Pilgrim, an ill-suited American chaplain’s assistant, survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war held in an underground meat locker.
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A Clockwork Orange
Also deep and open-ended · science fiction, classic literature
Alex is a teenage delinquent who leads his gang of droogs through a landscape of ultra-violence and theft in a future London.
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4
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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Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and open-ended · 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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Woyzeck
Also deep and open-ended · 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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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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The Aleph and Other Stories
by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley
Also deep and contemplative · classic literature, literary
Jorge Luis Borges' "The Aleph and Other Stories" is a collection of profound and intricate short stories that delve into philosophical themes, labyrinths, mirrors, time, and the nature of reality.
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Heart of a Dog
Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary
In 1920s Moscow, the surgeon Professor Preobrazhensky performs a radical medical experiment by transplanting a human pituitary gland and testicles into a stray dog named Sharik.
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The Employees
by Olga Ravn
Also deep and open-ended · science fiction, literary
Set aboard the Six-Thousand Ship orbiting the planet New Discovery, the narrative unfolds through a series of witness statements delivered to an anonymous committee.
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Also deep and contemplative · classic literature, literary
José Saramago retells the life of Jesus, beginning with Joseph, who overhears soldiers talking about a coming massacre of infants in Bethlehem and does not warn the others.
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