Books like Howl
12 books with a reading profile close to Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Deep and open-ended; a moderate read.
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Faulkner's collection centers on the title story, in which the townspeople of Jefferson, Mississippi, attend the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, a reclusive woman from an old family.
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El llano en llamas
by Juan Rulfo
Also deep and open-ended · 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.
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The complete poetical works
by Robert Burns
Also deep · 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.
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Portnoy’s Complaint
by Philip Roth
Also deep · 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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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Set in ancient Athens and an adjacent enchanted forest, this comedy follows four young lovers—Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius—whose romantic entanglements spiral into chaos due to the interference of the fairy k…
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The Moon and Sixpence
Also deep · 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.
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Also open-ended · classic literature, literary
Farquhar, a Southern planter, is being hanged for attempting to sabotage an Owl Creek bridge during the Civil War.
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A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
Also deep · 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.
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The Story of an Hour
by Kate Chopin
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.
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As You Like It
classic literature, literary
In this pastoral comedy, Rosalind flees the court of her usurping uncle, Duke Frederick, and disguises herself as a young man named Ganymede to survive in the Forest of Arden.
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The Beautiful and Damned
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.
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