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12 books with a reading profile close to Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man, has moved to a remote cabin in eastern Norway to live alone with his dog.
2

Tokyo Ueno Station

by Yū Miri

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Kazu is a ghost who haunts the grounds of Tokyo’s Ueno Park, mirroring the era he spent living there as a homeless laborer.
3

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Set in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century, this collection of interconnected stories centers on George Willard, a young reporter for the local newspaper.
4

Stoner

by John Williams

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

William Stoner arrives at the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture but shifts his focus to English literature after encountering a Shakespearean sonnet.
5

Martin Eden

by Jack London

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Martin Eden, a coarse and uneducated sailor, decides to overhaul his entire identity after meeting Ruth Morse, a woman from a refined bourgeois family.
6

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

The story follows Leo Gursky, an elderly locksmith in New York who avoids solitude by making himself seen in public, unaware that a manual he wrote in Poland sixty years ago survived the Holocaust.
7

The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

The narrative follows the Ganguli family, beginning with Ashoke and Ashima’s arranged marriage and subsequent relocation from Calcutta to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
8

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, and recounts her life to her friend Pheoby Watson.
9

Dear Life

by Alice Munro

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Dear Life is Alice Munro's last collection, with ten stories of rural and small-town Canada.
10

Breath, Eyes, Memory

by Edwidge Danticat

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Sophie Caco is raised by her aunt Atie in a Haitian village until, at twelve, she is sent to New York to join the mother she barely knows.
11

The Lowland

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Subhash and Udayan are brothers born in Calcutta, separated by temperament and political conviction.
12

Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates thirteen months of adolescence in a claustrophobic Worcestershire village during 1982.

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