Books like Good Morning, Midnight
12 books with a reading profile close to Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Remains of the Day
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In 1956, Stevens, an aging butler at Darlington Hall, takes a six-day motoring trip through the English West Country.
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2
Chess Story
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set on a passenger liner traveling from New York to Buenos Aires, the narrative centers on an unlikely encounter between Mirko Czentovic, the arrogant world chess champion, and a mysterious passenger known as Dr.
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3
Giovanni’s Room
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
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.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
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.
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5
No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
The narrative follows Yozo Oba, a young man who feels physically and mentally alienated from the human race.
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Death of a Salesman
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Willy Loman is an aging traveling salesman in Brooklyn whose mental health is fracturing under the weight of professional failure and debt.
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Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Hedda Gabler returns from a honeymoon to a life of stifling domesticity and debt alongside her academic husband, George Tesman.
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8
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
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.
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9
Franny and Zooey
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set in Manhattan during the 1950s, the narrative centers on two siblings of the brilliant Glass family as they navigate a shared spiritual crisis.
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Sophie’s Choice
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In 1947 Brooklyn, a young aspiring writer named Stingo moves into a boarding house and becomes entangled in the volatile relationship between Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, and Nathan Landa…
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
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.
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Revolutionary Road
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Frank and April Wheeler live in a Connecticut suburb, maintaining a surface of intellectual superiority over their neighbors while struggling with internal stagnation.
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