Books like Dream Work
12 books with a reading profile close to Dream Work by Mary Oliver. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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Upstream: Selected Essays
by Mary Oliver
Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, literary
In this collection, Mary Oliver documents her observations of the natural world, specifically focusing on the flora and fauna of Provincetown and the Massachusetts coast.
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Call Us What We Carry
Also inward-looking · inspirational, literary
In this collection, Amanda Gorman documents the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and American history.
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver
Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, literary
Devotions serves as a definitive roadmap of Mary Oliver’s fifty-year career, beginning with her debut in 1963 and extending through her final collections.
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The Essential Rumi
Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, literary
Coleman Barks translates the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic’s Persian verses into contemporary English free verse.
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Manuscript Found in Accra
by Paulo Coelho
Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, literary
In the year 1099, the people of Jerusalem gather in the city's square on the eve of an invasion by crusaders, and a wise Greek called the Copt invites them to share their thoughts.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, literary
In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor-in-chief of French Elle, suffered a massive stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome.
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, literary
This collection assembles the complete poetic output of Robert Frost, organizing over three hundred poems chronologically from his early twentieth-century debut through his final years.
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The Prophet
Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, literary
The narrative centers on Almustafa, a prophet who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for twelve years.
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Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám
by Omar Khayyam, Tomoyé Press Bkp Cu-Banc
Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, literary
The Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám presents a series of four-line stanzas, or quatrains, attributed to the eleventh-century Persian polymath Omar Khayyám and translated into English by Edward FitzGerald.
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The Giving Tree
Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, literary
Shel Silverstein’s parable follows the lifelong relationship between a young boy and an apple tree.
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Siddhartha
Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, literary
Siddhartha, a young Brahman in ancient India, abandons his high-caste life and ritualistic obligations to seek an end to personal suffering.
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