Books like Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories
12 books with a reading profile close to Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories by Philip Roth. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Native Son
by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the segregated South Side of Chicago during the 1930s, the narrative follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man trapped by systemic poverty and racial prejudice.
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The Overcoat
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Akaky Akakievich is a low-ranking government clerk in St.
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3
Great Gatsby
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jay Gatsby spends his life accumulating wealth through criminal channels to reclaim a past romance with Daisy Buchanan.
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
After the funeral of Molly Lane, her two former lovers—Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor—forge a mutual euthanasia pact to avoid a similar cognitive decline.
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This comprehensive collection gathers the full breadth of Hemingway’s short fiction, including the iconic Nick Adams adventures, vignettes from In Our Time, and posthumously published fragments.
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The Sun Also Rises
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris, lives with a physical wound from the Great War that leaves him impotent.
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Sister Carrie
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
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Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in New York City during August 1974, the narrative centers on Philippe Petit’s unauthorized tightrope walk between the Twin Towers.
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
by Evelyn Waugh
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
During the mobilization of World War II, Captain Charles Ryder finds himself stationed at Brideshead Castle, the ancestral seat of the Marchmain family.
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A Thousand Ships
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Natalie Haynes reimagines the Trojan War through a choral narrative that centers the women, goddesses, and victims usually relegated to the margins of epic poetry.
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In 1979, aging Iowa farmer Larry Cook decides to divide his namesake farm among his three daughters: Ginny, Rose, and Tyra.
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The Winter of Our Discontent
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
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