Books like Dom Casmurro
12 books with a reading profile close to Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Good Soldier
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
John Dowell, a wealthy American, narrates the decade-long history of his friendship with Edward Ashburnham, a British captain, and their respective wives, Florence and Leonora.
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Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in late nineteenth-century Kristiania, the narrative follows an unnamed, destitute writer struggling to maintain his dignity while starving.
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3
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Jean Rhys recontextualizes the silent madwoman from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by tracing her origins in the Caribbean.
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The Double
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The story follows Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a socially insecure titular councillor in Saint Petersburg whose fragile mental state shatters when he encounters a man identical to himself.
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5
Woyzeck
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
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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Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
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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Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Zeno Cosini, a rich businessman from Trieste, is told by his psychoanalyst to write his memoirs, and he produces an account of his habits, in particular his failed attempts to give up smoking.
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The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Yeong-hye, a South Korean housewife, suddenly stops eating meat after a series of visceral, bloody dreams.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
J.D.
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The Magus
by John Fowles
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Nicholas Urfe, a restless British schoolteacher, takes a job on the remote Greek island of Phraxos to escape a stagnant life in London.
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs
Also deep and open-ended · literary, classic literature
William Lee, a drug addict and fugitive, flees a narcotics investigation in the United States to seek refuge in the Interzone, a hallucinatory territory located in North Africa.
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Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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