Books like Hunger
12 books with a reading profile close to Hunger by Knut Hamsun. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Jean Rhys recontextualizes the silent madwoman from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by tracing her origins in the Caribbean.
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2
The Good Soldier
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, 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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3
Dom Casmurro
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Bento Santiago, a retired man living in Rio de Janeiro, writes a memoir to explain why he earned the nickname Dom Casmurro.
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4
Mrs. Dalloway
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Clarissa Dalloway spends a June Wednesday in 1925 London purchasing flowers and preparing her home for an evening gala.
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5
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The novel chronicles the internal struggles of its narrator, Kochan, as he navigates his adolescence and young adulthood in post-war Japan.
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6
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
J.D.
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The Double
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The story follows Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a socially insecure titular councillor in Saint Petersburg whose fragile mental state shatters when he encounters a man identical to himself.
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Nine Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Nine Stories centers on the Glass family and other urban protagonists navigating mid-century American life.
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9
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Middle-aged history professor George and his wife Martha return home after a campus party and invite a younger couple, Nick and Honey, for late-night drinks.
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10
The Hour of the Star
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
In Rio de Janeiro, a self-absorbed narrator named Rodrigo S.M.
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11
Kokoro
by Natsume Sōseki, Edwin McClellan
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The narrative centers on a university student in Tokyo who befriends an older, cynical intellectual he calls Sensei.
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12
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Zeno Cosini, a rich businessman from Trieste, is told by his psychoanalyst to write his memoirs, and he produces an account of his habits, in particular his failed attempts to give up smoking.
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