Books like Dust Tracks on a Road
12 books with a reading profile close to Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston. Inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
This collection compiles the private correspondence sent by Vincent van Gogh, primarily to his brother Theo, between 1872 and his death in 1890.
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The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Also contemplative · biography, literary
Elizabeth Gaskell reconstructs the private history of her friend, the author of Jane Eyre, through a collection of personal letters and firsthand observations of the Haworth parsonage.
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3
A Moveable Feast
Also contemplative · memoir, literary
Ernest Hemingway recounts his early years as an aspiring writer living in Paris during the 1920s.
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4
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, literary
Isak Dinesen chronicles seventeen years spent managing a coffee plantation at the foot of the Ngong Hills in Kenya.
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The House of the Spirits
Also inward-looking and contemplative · literary, classic literature
The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
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6
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
Also inward-looking and contemplative · biography, memoir
Barack Obama reconstructs his personal history and identity as a biracial man in America through a narrative that spans Honolulu, Chicago, and Kenya.
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
biography, memoir
In 1992, Chris McCandless abandoned his possessions and middle-class expectations to live off the land in the Alaskan interior.
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8
The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
Also contemplative · memoir, literary
Stefan Zweig chronicles the collapse of European civilization from the late nineteenth century through the start of World War II.
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The House of the Dead
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, literary
Alexandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Siberia for uxoricide, narrates his daily existence within a communal prison barracks.
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10
H is for Hawk
Also inward-looking and contemplative · biography, memoir
After her father’s sudden death, Helen Macdonald buys a captive goshawk named Mabel to cope with her grief.
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Oliver Goldsmith
biography, literary
Washington Irving presents a detailed biographical portrait of Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, focusing on the interplay between his erratic personal habits and his literary output.
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12
The Complete Fairy Tales
by Oscar Wilde
Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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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