Books like Howl and Other Poems
12 books with a reading profile close to Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. Deep, inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.
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Orlando
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
The narrative follows Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman who begins as a favorite of the court and lives for over three centuries without aging significantly.
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Woyzeck
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Franz Woyzeck is a low-ranking soldier stationed in a provincial German town, struggling to provide for his common-law wife, Marie, and their infant son.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
The poem recounts a sailor’s harrowing sea voyage that spirals into disaster after he shoots an albatross without provocation.
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Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
This collection of short stories documents the early development of Gabriel García Márquez’s narrative style before his shift into Macondo.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
J.D.
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The Hour of the Star
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
In Rio de Janeiro, a self-absorbed narrator named Rodrigo S.M.
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Amerika
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Karl Rossmann is a teenager banished by his parents to America after a scandal with a maid.
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Clevinger's trial (from 'Catch-22')
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Joseph Heller’s standalone play, Clevinger’s Trial, adapts the eighth chapter of his novel Catch-22 into a rhythmic, one-act script.
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
William Lee, a drug addict and fugitive, flees a narcotics investigation in the United States to seek refuge in the Interzone, a hallucinatory territory located in North Africa.
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The Good Soldier
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
John Dowell, a wealthy American, narrates the decade-long history of his friendship with Edward Ashburnham, a British captain, and their respective wives, Florence and Leonora.
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Difficult Loves
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
This collection gathers fifteen short stories centered on the internal friction between private desire and social reality.
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by John Fowles
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Set in the 1860s in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, the narrative follows Charles Smithson, a gentleman naturalist engaged to the wealthy Ernestina Freeman.
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