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Books like Daytripper

12 books with a reading profile close to Daytripper by Fábio Moon. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

Sweet Bean Paste

by Durian Sukegawa

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Sentaro runs a tiny dorayaki shop, selling pancakes filled with sweet bean paste, and he is stuck in a life he did not choose, having served a prison sentence.
2

Women Talking

by Miriam Toews

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Based on real events in the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia, this novel centers on eight Mennonite women meeting secretly in a hayloft.
3

The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac

Also inward-looking · philosophy, narrative

Ray Smith, a fictionalized version of Kerouac, navigates the contrast between urban jazz parties and the solitude of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
4

The Book of Form and Emptiness

by Ruth Ozeki

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Following the sudden death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear the voices of inanimate objects.
5

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Set in a luxury Parisian apartment building, the story follows Renée Michel, a fifty-four-year-old concierge who hides her deep knowledge of Kant, Tolstoy, and art behind a facade of working-class dullness.
6

The Zahir

by Paulo Coelho

Also inward-looking · philosophy, narrative

Esther, a war correspondent, is married to a celebrated novelist, the narrator, who is living comfortably in Paris.
7

The Children Act

by Ian McEwan

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative

High Court judge Fiona Maye presides over the Family Division in London, where she adjudicates cases involving medical ethics and religious freedom.
8

Three Daughters of Eve

by Elif Shafak

Also thought-provoking · 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.
9

The Witch of Portobello

by Paulo Coelho

Also inward-looking · philosophy, narrative

Athena is a woman born in Romania to a Roma mother, adopted as a baby by a Lebanese couple, and raised partly in Beirut and later in London.
10

Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

Also contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Edward Abbey recounts his seasons as a seasonal ranger at Arches National Monument in the late 1950s.
11

Peter Camenzind

by Hermann Hesse

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

The story follows Peter Camenzind, a boy born into a secluded Swiss mountain village who leaves his rural environment to pursue an intellectual life in Zurich.
12

The Solitaire Mystery

by Jostein Gaarder

philosophy, narrative

Hans Thomas travels with his father from Norway to Greece to find his long-lost mother.

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