Books like Crossing the Water
12 books with a reading profile close to Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.
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1
Lost Children Archive
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
A family of four travels by car from New York City to the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.
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2
Assembly
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
In this concise novel, an unnamed Black British woman prepares for a weekend party at her white boyfriend’s family estate.
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3
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
The narrative follows the Swart family, white farmers living near Pretoria, across four funerals spanning four decades of South African history.
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4
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
by Elif Shafak
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Tequila Leila, a sex worker in Istanbul, has been murdered and dumped in a trash bin.
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5
Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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To Paradise
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
This novel follows three distinct narratives set in a reimagined New York City across different centuries.
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7
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
J.D.
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8
Jesus’ Son
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Eleven linked stories follow a drifting narrator through the drug-addled margins of the American Midwest and Pacific Northwest in the 1970s.
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9
Time Shelter
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Gospodinov's novel imagines a Swiss-run clinic that treats Alzheimer's patients by recreating the decade of their youth, with floors that look like the 1960s, 1970s and so on.
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10
The Employees
by Olga Ravn
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
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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11
100 Selected Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
This collection showcases Edward Estlin Cummings’s rejection of standard grammar and punctuation in favor of visual typography.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu, a background actor trapped in the repetitive hierarchy of a procedural television show titled Black and White.
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