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12 books with a reading profile close to Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie. Deep and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

Essays of three decades

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

This collection brings together sixteen of Mann’s non-fiction pieces written between 1911 and 1937, focusing on the intellectual heritage of Europe.
2

A Room of One’s Own

by Virginia Woolf

Also deep · philosophy, academic

Virginia Woolf bases this extended essay on the material conditions required for women to produce literature.
3

Caim

by José Saramago

Also deep · philosophy, literary

In Saramago's last novel, the first murderer of the Bible, Cain, is condemned to wander the earth for killing his brother Abel.
4

The unsaid Anna Karenina

by Judith M. Armstrong

Also deep · academic, literary

Judith M.
5

Eugene Onegin

by Alexander Pushkin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse follows Eugene Onegin, a cynical aristocrat weary of Saint Petersburg’s high society.
6

Earthsea revisioned

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Also deep and contemplative · academic, literary

In this published lecture, Ursula K.
7

Snow

by Orhan Pamuk

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Ka, an exiled poet, returns to Turkey to investigate a series of suicides among young women in the border city of Kars.
8

Twilight and philosophy

by Rebecca Housel, J. Jeremy Wisnewski

Also deep · philosophy, academic

This anthology applies classical and contemporary philosophical frameworks to the narrative world created by Stephenie Meyer.
9

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

George Orr lives in a future Portland where his dreams physically alter reality.
10

Island

by Aldous Huxley

Also deep · philosophy, literary

The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
11

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.
12

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Arkady Kirsanov returns from university to his father's estate in 1859, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, a medical student and self-declared nihilist who rejects authority, art, and tradition.

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