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Books like Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce

12 books with a reading profile close to Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce by Vladimir Nabokov. Deep and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

Imaginary Homelands

by Salman Rushdie

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

Salman Rushdie’s collection of essays centers on the fragmented perspective of the expatriate writer.
2

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.
3

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.
4

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.
5

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.
6

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

After receiving a prophecy from three witches that he will become King of Scotland, a general named Macbeth murders King Duncan to seize the throne.
7

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

Also deep · philosophy, literary

Ovid’s hexameter narrative tracks the history of the world from its chaotic origins to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
8

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.
9

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.
10

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.
11

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Annie Dillard uses her home in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley as an observatory to document the biological mechanics of the natural world.
12

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.

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