Books like Crime and Punishment
12 books with a reading profile close to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Isabel Archer, a spirited young American, travels to Victorian England to seek independence rather than a conventional marriage.
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The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Charles Arrowby, a vanity-driven theater director, retires to a secluded coastal house to write his memoirs and escape his past.
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WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Wilhelm Meister begins as a merchant’s son who abandons his family’s commercial expectations to join a troupe of traveling actors.
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The Idiot
by Frank J. Morlock, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
In this dramatic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Frank J.
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The Idiot
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to the rigid social circles of St.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Ireland, navigating the strictures of a Catholic education and the turbulent political climate of Irish nationalism.
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Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Ariel contains the poems Sylvia Plath wrote during the final months of her life, focusing on domestic confinement, creative rebirth, and mental disintegration.
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King Lear
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
In 1608, William Shakespeare’s tragedy follows an aging British monarch who abdicates his throne and divides his territory based on his daughters’ public professions of love.
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
by W.B. Yeats
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
This volume tracks the evolution of William Butler Yeats’s poetic output across four decades, charting a progression from early Victorian romanticism to a starker, modernist aesthetic.
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Nausea
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Antoine Roquentin, a secluded historian living in the port town of Bouvile, becomes obsessed with a visceral physical sensation he calls the Nausea.
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Villette
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Lucy Snowe, a plain, reserved young Englishwoman with no family, leaves for the town of Villette in the fictional country of Labassecour, a thinly disguised Belgium.
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12
Letter to His Father
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
In this unsent document, Franz Kafka addresses his father, Hermann Kafka, to dissect their dysfunctional relationship and the psychological damage caused by his father’s overbearing personality.
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