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Books like Eugene Onegin

12 books with a reading profile close to Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Alcestis

by Euripides

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

In this tragedy, King Admetus is granted a reprieve from his impending death on the condition that someone else dies in his place.
2

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Arkady Kirsanov returns from university to his father's estate in 1859, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, a medical student and self-declared nihilist who rejects authority, art, and tradition.
3

Island

by Aldous Huxley

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
4

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

Duke Vincentio departs Vienna under a pretext of travel, leaving the puritanical Angelo to enforce long-ignored moral laws.
5

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

After receiving a prophecy from three witches that he will become King of Scotland, a general named Macbeth murders King Duncan to seize the throne.
6

The Wall

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

Sartre's collection takes its name from the title story, set during the Spanish Civil War.
7

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

Also deep · philosophy, literary

Ovid’s hexameter narrative tracks the history of the world from its chaotic origins to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
8

Songs of innocence and of experience

by William Blake

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
9

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

John Keats’s debut collection, published in March 1817 rather than 1800, organizes lyrical meditations on the restorative capacity of the natural world and the permanence of classical mythology.
10

Medea

by Euripides

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

Euripides depicts the psychological collapse and subsequent vengeance of Medea, a Colchian princess abandoned by her husband, Jason.
11

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
12

The power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Set in 1930s Mexico during the Cristero War, the narrative follows a nameless whiskey priest fleeing a paramilitary police force.

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