Books like Lolita
12 books with a reading profile close to Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Ariel contains the poems Sylvia Plath wrote during the final months of her life, focusing on domestic confinement, creative rebirth, and mental disintegration.
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The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
This chronological assembly spans Plath’s creative output from 1956 until her death in 1963.
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Villette
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Lucy Snowe, a plain, reserved young Englishwoman with no family, leaves for the town of Villette in the fictional country of Labassecour, a thinly disguised Belgium.
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4
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Isabel Archer, a spirited young American, travels to Victorian England to seek independence rather than a conventional marriage.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Ireland, navigating the strictures of a Catholic education and the turbulent political climate of Irish nationalism.
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Tender is the Night
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Dick Diver is a promising American psychiatrist living on the French Riviera during the 1920s.
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7
Letter to His Father
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
In this unsent document, Franz Kafka addresses his father, Hermann Kafka, to dissect their dysfunctional relationship and the psychological damage caused by his father’s overbearing personality.
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Women in Love
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Set in an English industrial town following the Great War, the narrative follows the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, as they navigate complex relationships with two friends, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich.
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The Double
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The story follows Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a socially insecure titular councillor in Saint Petersburg whose fragile mental state shatters when he encounters a man identical to himself.
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10
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Zeno Cosini, a rich businessman from Trieste, is told by his psychoanalyst to write his memoirs, and he produces an account of his habits, in particular his failed attempts to give up smoking.
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11
Crime and Punishment
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Rodion Raskolnikov, a destitute former student living in a cramped St.
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Lord Jim
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Jim, a young First Mate on the steamer Patna, abandons his ship and hundreds of sleeping pilgrims after a collision.
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