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Books like Hippolytus

12 books with a reading profile close to Hippolytus by Euripides, Euripides. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, theoretical

The Tao Te Ching consists of eighty-one brief chapters outlining the relationship between the individual and the Tao, an underlying natural order that precedes human intervention.
2

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

John Keats’s debut collection, published in March 1817 rather than 1800, organizes lyrical meditations on the restorative capacity of the natural world and the permanence of classical mythology.
3

The Screwtape Letters

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, theoretical

Written as a series of instructional private letters from a senior demon to his novice nephew, Wormwood, this book details the psychological mechanics of spiritual failure.
4

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

After receiving a prophecy from three witches that he will become King of Scotland, a general named Macbeth murders King Duncan to seize the throne.
5

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
6

Songs of innocence and of experience

by William Blake

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
7

Rubāʻīyāt

by Omar Khayyam

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

This 1870 edition presents a collection of quatrains attributed to the eleventh-century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald.
8

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

by Joseph Smith Jr.

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, theoretical

Presented as the record of ancient inhabitants of the Americas, this text begins with the prophet Lehi, who leaves Jerusalem with his family around 600 BC.
9

Alcestis

by Euripides

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

In this tragedy, King Admetus is granted a reprieve from his impending death on the condition that someone else dies in his place.
10

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

In Algiers, a clerk named Meursault receives news of his mother’s death and attends her funeral with complete emotional detachment.
11

Holy Bible: New International Version

by Anonymous

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, theoretical

This volume compiles sixty-six distinct books divided into the Old and New Testaments.
12

Bible

by Bible

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, theoretical

This text spans from the creation of the universe to the final judgment of humanity, documenting the covenant between a monotheistic deity and the people of Israel.

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