Books like

Books like El túnel

12 books with a reading profile close to El túnel by Ernesto Sabato. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Edna Pontellier lives within the rigid social structures of late nineteenth-century Louisiana, moving between the French Quarter in New Orleans and the vacation community of Grand Isle.
2

Giovanni’s Room

by James Baldwin

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

In 1950s Paris, David, a young American living on his father’s allowance, struggles with his sexual identity while his fiancée, Hella, travels in Spain.
3

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Willy Loman is an aging traveling salesman in Brooklyn whose mental health is fracturing under the weight of professional failure and debt.
4

Play It As It Lays

by Joan Didion

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Maria Wyeth is a thirty-year-old former actress living in Los Angeles who spends her days driving the California freeway system in a silver Corvette.
5

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Frank and April Wheeler live in a Connecticut suburb, maintaining a surface of intellectual superiority over their neighbors while struggling with internal stagnation.
6

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Set against the backdrop of World War II at the Devon School, the story follows Gene Forrester, an intellectual student, and his charismatic roommate Phineas.
7

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Set in Manhattan during the 1950s, the narrative centers on two siblings of the brilliant Glass family as they navigate a shared spiritual crisis.
8

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Esther Greenwood, a college student from Massachusetts, wins a competitive summer internship at a fashion magazine in mid-century New York City.
9

Hedda Gabler

by Henrik Ibsen

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Hedda Gabler returns from a honeymoon to a life of stifling domesticity and debt alongside her academic husband, George Tesman.
10

The hours

by Michael Cunningham

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

In 1923 England, Virginia Woolf struggles with debilitating headaches while writing the first sentences of Mrs.
11

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Set in a 1930s Georgia mill town, the narrative centers on John Singer, a deaf-mute man who becomes the silent confidant for four disparate neighbors.
12

No Longer Human

by Osamu Dazai

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

The narrative follows Yozo Oba, a young man who feels physically and mentally alienated from the human race.

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