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12 books with a reading profile close to Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Price of Salt

by Claire Morgan

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Therese Belivet is a nineteen-year-old stage designer working a temporary retail job at Frankenberg’s department store in Manhattan.
2

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Therese Belivet works as a temporary shop assistant in a Manhattan department store when she meets Carol Aird, an elegant suburban mother purchasing a doll for her daughter.
3

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Newland Archer, a young gentleman integrated into the rigid social hierarchy of 1870s New York, prepares for a safe marriage to the conventional May Welland.
4

Three Comrades

by Erich Maria Remarque

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Robert Lohkamp, Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz are three veterans of the First World War who run a car repair shop in Germany in the late 1920s, bound by their wartime experiences and poverty.
5

Desayuno en Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Also thought-provoking · romance, narrative

Set in wartime Manhattan, the story follows an aspiring writer who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
6

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain records her family’s life within a decaying English castle during the 1930s.
7

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Jane Eyre follows the life of an orphaned girl who survives a neglectful upbringing at Gateshead Hall and the harsh conditions of Lowood Institution.
8

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.
9

The novels of Jane Austen [6 volumes]

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative and thought-provoking · romance, narrative

This six-volume collection contains the complete major fiction of Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
10

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative · romance, narrative

Anne Elliot, the overlooked middle daughter of a vain baronet, lives with the regret of having broken her engagement to Frederick Wentworth eight years earlier.
11

Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, classic literature

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist are two young ranch hands who spend a summer in 1963 herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming.
12

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, classic literature

Maurice Hall is a middle-class young man who goes to Cambridge, where he falls in love with Clive Durham, a fellow student.

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