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Books like God Emperor of Dune

12 books with a reading profile close to God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert. Deep, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.

1

Dune Messiah

by Frank Herbert

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense

Twelve years after his conquest of Arrakis, Paul Atreides reigns as Emperor of the Known Universe, yet he is trapped by the violent momentum of a galactic jihad he cannot halt.
2

Children of Dune

by Frank Herbert

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense

Nine years after Paul Atreides walked into the desert, his twin children, Leto II and Ghanima, face a fracturing empire.
3

Anathem

by Neal Stephenson

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense

On the planet Arbre, scholars known as avout live in monastic communities called concents, cut off from the outside world, devoting themselves to mathematics, philosophy, and science, with only brief gatherings with out…
4

Machines like Me

by Ian McEwan

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction

In a version of 1982 where Britain lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is alive and artificial intelligence has advanced a long way.
5

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.
6

The Book of Strange New Things

by Michel Faber

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction

Peter Leigh, a dedicated Christian pastor, leaves his wife Beatrice on a crumbling, disaster-stricken Earth to travel to the planet Oasis.
7

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.
8

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Alonso Quijano, an elderly man from La Mancha, loses his grip on reality after consuming a constant diet of chivalric tales.
9

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

George Orr lives in a future Portland where his dreams physically alter reality.
10

Essays of three decades

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This collection brings together sixteen of Mann’s non-fiction pieces written between 1911 and 1937, focusing on the intellectual heritage of Europe.
11

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky

Also deep · philosophy, science fiction

The narrative follows Redrick Schuhart, a professional stalker who illegally ventures into the Zone, one of several locations on Earth littered with mysterious debris following a brief extraterrestrial visit.
12

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Anonymous

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Gilgamesh, the ruler of Uruk, dominates his subjects until the gods create Enkidu, a feral man, to challenge him.

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