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Books like Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

12 books with a reading profile close to Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.

1

The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Alexandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Siberia for uxoricide, narrates his daily existence within a communal prison barracks.
2

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh

Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, classic literature

This collection compiles the private correspondence sent by Vincent van Gogh, primarily to his brother Theo, between 1872 and his death in 1890.
3

De profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Written during his incarceration at Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde’s long letter to Lord Alfred Douglas details the emotional and financial ruin resulting from their relationship.
4

The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and others] Edited by Edmund Wilson

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

This collection centers on the psychological collapse of F.
5

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

by Victor Hugo

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Focused on the final six weeks of a prisoner awaiting execution in nineteenth-century France, Victor Hugo’s novel follows an unnamed protagonist from his trial at the Bicêtre Hospital to the guillotine at Place de Grève.
6

The Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Written as a set of instructions for the inner life, this text posits that spiritual progress requires the systematic rejection of worldly vanity and the active suppression of the ego.
7

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

C.S.
8

Gandhi: An Autobiography

by Mahatma Gandhi

Also inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

In this memoir, Mohandas K.
9

The Razor’s Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Larry Darrell returns to Chicago from the battlefields of World War I, but find himself unable to settle into a conventional social life or a marriage with his fiancée, Isabel Bradley.
10

The Weight of Glory

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Originally delivered as a series of wartime sermons, this collection centers on the transition from temporal desire to eternal reality.
11

The Art Spirit

by Robert Henri

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Robert Henri presents a collection of letters, lectures, and studio notes that formulate a philosophy of creative living rather than a technical manual.
12

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.

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