Books like Klara and the Sun
12 books with a reading profile close to Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
On a remote island in British Columbia, a novelist named Ruth finds the washed-up diary of Nao, a sixteen-year-old girl living in Tokyo.
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2
Yol
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
A father and his son are the only characters who really matter in this novel.
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The Road
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
An unnamed father and his young son walk southward through a scorched American landscape years after an unspecified cataclysm.
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4
The Left Hand of Darkness
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Genly Ai arrives on the frozen planet Gethen as an envoy representing the Ekumen, a coalition of human worlds.
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5
The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Following the sudden death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear the voices of inanimate objects.
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6
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
by Claire North
philosophy, narrative
Harry August is a kalachakra, a man who lives his life in a loop.
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7
Never Let Me Go
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, science fiction
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are students at Hailsham, an isolated British boarding school where teachers encourage artistic expression and physical health above all else.
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8
Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Based on real events in the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia, this novel centers on eight Mennonite women meeting secretly in a hayloft.
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9
The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, science fiction
Peter Leigh, a dedicated Christian pastor, leaves his wife Beatrice on a crumbling, disaster-stricken Earth to travel to the planet Oasis.
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10
The White Book
by Han Kang
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
The White Book is a collection of sixty-five short prose pieces centered on the color white.
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The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
High Court judge Fiona Maye presides over the Family Division in London, where she adjudicates cases involving medical ethics and religious freedom.
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12
The Wall
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
A woman is staying at a hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps with relatives when she wakes to find that an invisible, impassable wall has cut off the valley, and everything beyond it appears dead.
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