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Books like Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

12 books with a reading profile close to Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature

This collection gathers short fiction depicting the mundane lives of late nineteenth-century Russian peasants, clerks, and aristocrats.
2

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Set in 1894, the narrative follows Louise Mallard as she receives news of her husband Brently’s death in a railroad disaster.
3

El llano en llamas

by Juan Rulfo

Also deep and open-ended · literary, classic literature

Juan Rulfo's collection has seventeen short stories set in the arid countryside of Jalisco in Mexico, after the Revolution and the Cristero War.
4

Portnoy’s Complaint

by Philip Roth

Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature

Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
5

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

Also inward-looking and open-ended · literary, classic literature

Farquhar, a Southern planter, is being hanged for attempting to sabotage an Owl Creek bridge during the Civil War.
6

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Charles Strickland is an ordinary London stockbroker with a wife and two children until he abandons them without explanation and moves to Paris to paint.
7

Washington Square

by Henry James

Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature

In the affluent backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century New York, Catherine Sloper lives under the scrutiny of her father, Austin, a prominent physician who views his daughter as dull and unremarkable.
8

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Set in the shifting social landscape of 1910s New York, the narrative follows Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a massive tycoon fortune, and his marriage to the socialite Gloria Gilbert.
9

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

by William Faulkner

Also deep and open-ended · literary, classic literature

Faulkner's collection centers on the title story, in which the townspeople of Jefferson, Mississippi, attend the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, a reclusive woman from an old family.
10

Schoolgirl

by Osamu Dazai

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

The novella that first propelled Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan, Schoolgirl was essentially the start of his career and gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language.
11

Tartuffe

by Molière

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

In seventeenth-century Paris, a wealthy patriarch named Orgon falls under the spell of Tartuffe, a man posing as a pious ascetic.
12

The Complete Fairy Tales

by Oscar Wilde

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

This collection brings together stories including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, and The Nightingale and the Rose.

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