Books like Fugitive Pieces
12 books with a reading profile close to Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
The narrative follows seven generations of the Buendía family within the isolated village of Macondo, beginning with the patriarch José Arcadio Buendía.
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Difficult Loves
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
This collection gathers fifteen short stories centered on the internal friction between private desire and social reality.
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Housekeeping
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
In the isolated town of Fingerbone, Idaho, sisters Ruth and Lucille are raised by a succession of female relatives following their mother’s suicide.
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Structured as a letter from a son to his illiterate mother, the story follows Little Dog, a Vietnamese American man coming of age in Hartford, Connecticut.
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An Artist of the Floating World
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in post-war Japan, the narrative follows Masuji Ono, a retired painter navigating the physical and social ruins of his city.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
J.D.
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The Hour of the Star
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
In Rio de Janeiro, a self-absorbed narrator named Rodrigo S.M.
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8
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in a remote hot spring town buried under heavy winter drifts, the narrative follows Shimamura, an aesthetician from Tokyo who travels north to seek relief from his mundane urban life.
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9
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in 1930s Harlem, the narrative centers on John Grimes, a fourteen-year-old navigating a spiritual crisis during his birthday weekend.
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Ceremony
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Tayo, a young man of mixed Laguna Pueblo and white heritage, returns to his reservation in New Mexico after fighting in the Second World War as a prisoner of the Japanese.
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Also deep and open-ended · narrative, classic literature
The narrative follows a character identified simply as You, the Reader, who begins reading a new novel only to discover a printing defect that interrupts the story.
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12
Lanny
by Max Porter
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Lanny lives in an English village where his unusual sensitivity draws the attention of Dead Papa Toothwort, an ancient, mythical presence woven into the land.
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