Books like Johnny Got His Gun
12 books with a reading profile close to Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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A Raisin in the Sun
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in Chicago’s South Side during the late 1950s, the play follows the Younger family as they await a ten-thousand-dollar life insurance check following the patriarch's death.
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2
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Short Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
The title novella follows a retired veteran who visits the post office every Friday, expecting a pension check that never arrives.
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3
Train Dreams
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Robert Grainier is a day laborer in the American West during the early twentieth century.
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4
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, and recounts her life to her friend Pheoby Watson.
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5
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Lucia Berlin's collected short stories draw on her own life: a childhood in mining towns, years in El Paso and Chile, work as a cleaning woman, hospital switchboard operator and teacher, and struggles with alcoholism an…
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
This comprehensive collection gathers the full breadth of Hemingway’s short fiction, including the iconic Nick Adams adventures, vignettes from In Our Time, and posthumously published fragments.
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7
Black Swan Green
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates thirteen months of adolescence in a claustrophobic Worcestershire village during 1982.
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The Cherry Orchard
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
Madame Lyubov Ranevskaya returns to her family estate in Russia after years of exile in Paris to find her ancestral home facing public auction to pay off debts.
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9
A Month in the Country
by J.L. Carr
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tom Birkin arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby in 1920, physically scarred and suffering from a nervous facial twitch following his service in the Great War.
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10
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy, Margaret R. Higonnet
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman living in the rural English countryside, discovers her family descends from the aristocratic d’Urberville line.
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11
Cathedral
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Raymond Carver’s collection presents twelve short stories centered on blue-collar domesticity, alcoholism, and isolation in the American Pacific Northwest.
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12
Home
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Frank Money, a Black Korean War veteran, wakes up in a psychiatric ward in Seattle in the 1950s, haunted by what he saw in battle.
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