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Books like If Cats Disappeared from the World

12 books with a reading profile close to If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

by John Green

Also contemplative · philosophy, narrative

John Green evaluates the current geological age through a series of personal essays that assign star ratings to facets of the human-dominated world.
2

The Devil and Miss Prym

by Paulo Coelho, Amanda Hopkinson

philosophy, narrative

A mysterious stranger enters the isolated village of Viscos carrying eleven bars of gold and a heavy question.
3

The Light Between Oceans

by M.L. Stedman

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible

Tom Sherbourne, a traumatized veteran of the Great War, takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a remote island off the Western Australian coast.
4

Exit West

by Mohsin Hamid

Also contemplative and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative

Saeed and Nadia meet in an unnamed city teetering on the edge of civil war.
5

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
6

Daytripper

by Fábio Moon

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Brás de Oliva Domingos writes obituaries for a Brazilian newspaper while living in the shadow of his famous novelist father.
7

The Magician's Assistant

by Ann Patchett

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible

Sabine, a magician's assistant, has spent twenty years working with Parsifal, a gay magician, and living with him in Los Angeles.
8

Our Souls at Night

by Kent Haruf

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible

In the small town of Holt, Colorado, Addie Moore, a widow in her seventies, visits her neighbor Louis Waters with a straightforward proposal.
9

Sweet Bean Paste

by Durian Sukegawa

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, narrative

Sentaro runs a tiny dorayaki shop, selling pancakes filled with sweet bean paste, and he is stuck in a life he did not choose, having served a prison sentence.
10

The Spectacular Now

by Tim Tharp

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

Sutter Keely is a high school senior in a small Oklahoma town who lives for parties and drinking and thinks of himself as the life of every gathering.
11

Tom Lake

by Ann Patchett

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible

During the 2020 pandemic, Lara gathers with her three adult daughters on their family cherry orchard in Michigan.
12

Was man von hier aus sehen kann

by Mariana Leky

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible

Luise, a ten-year-old girl in a small village in the German Westerwald, learns that whenever her grandmother Selma dreams of an okapi, someone in the village will die within twenty-four hours.

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