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Books like Goodbye to Berlin

12 books with a reading profile close to Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

Charles Strickland is an ordinary London stockbroker with a wife and two children until he abandons them without explanation and moves to Paris to paint.
2

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

Also deep and contemplative · classic literature, literary

Robert Burns’s 1786 collection, originally titled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, documents the intersection of rural labor and linguistic identity.
3

The Complete Fairy Tales

by Oscar Wilde

Also contemplative and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

This collection brings together stories including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, and The Nightingale and the Rose.
4

Tartuffe

by Molière

Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

In seventeenth-century Paris, a wealthy patriarch named Orgon falls under the spell of Tartuffe, a man posing as a pious ascetic.
5

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

Tony Last is a gentle English country gentleman who lives at Hetton Abbey, a Gothic mansion he loves, with his wife Brenda and young son John Andrew.
6

Washington Square

by Henry James

Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

In the affluent backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century New York, Catherine Sloper lives under the scrutiny of her father, Austin, a prominent physician who views his daughter as dull and unremarkable.
7

El llano en llamas

by Juan Rulfo

Also deep and contemplative · classic literature, literary

Juan Rulfo's collection has seventeen short stories set in the arid countryside of Jalisco in Mexico, after the Revolution and the Cristero War.
8

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Also thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

Set in 1894, the narrative follows Louise Mallard as she receives news of her husband Brently’s death in a railroad disaster.
9

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

Also thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

Farquhar, a Southern planter, is being hanged for attempting to sabotage an Owl Creek bridge during the Civil War.
10

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

Set in the shifting social landscape of 1910s New York, the narrative follows Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a massive tycoon fortune, and his marriage to the socialite Gloria Gilbert.
11

The Portable Oscar Wilde

by Richard Aldington, Oscar Wilde

classic literature, literary

This 1946 compilation preserves the breadth of Oscar Wilde’s literary output, moving beyond his reputation as a mere wit.
12

Portnoy’s Complaint

by Philip Roth

Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.

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