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12 books with a reading profile close to Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.

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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

by W.B. Yeats

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

This volume tracks the evolution of William Butler Yeats’s poetic output across four decades, charting a progression from early Victorian romanticism to a starker, modernist aesthetic.
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Dante Alighieri narrates his own passage through the three realms of the afterlife, beginning in a dark forest where the Roman poet Virgil meets him.
3

Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

In nineteenth-century Russia, a small provincial town becomes the staging ground for a revolutionary cell led by the manipulative Pyotr Verkhovensky.
4

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Dante Alighieri narrates his descent through nine concentric circles of hell under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil.
5

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Hans Castorp, a young engineer, visits his cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, intending to stay for three weeks.
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

This 1730 collection organizes the complete dramatic and poetic output of William Shakespeare, encompassing comedies, histories, and tragedies alongside his lyrical sequences.
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King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

In 1608, William Shakespeare’s tragedy follows an aging British monarch who abdicates his throne and divides his territory based on his daughters’ public professions of love.
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WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS

by J. W. von Goethe

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Wilhelm Meister begins as a merchant’s son who abandons his family’s commercial expectations to join a troupe of traveling actors.
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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Ishmael, a schoolmaster seeking relief from a melancholy spirit, joins the crew of the Pequod, a whaling vessel departing from Nantucket.
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Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Heinrich Faust is a scholar who has mastered philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, yet remains dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge.
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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Charles Marlow, a seasoned sailor, narrates his passage aboard a steamship into the Congo Free State to retrieve Mr.
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Paradise Lost

by John Milton

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense

John Milton composed this epic poem in blank verse to justify the ways of God to men.

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