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12 books with a reading profile close to Mensagem - Poemas Esotéricos by Fernando Pessoa. Deep and open-ended; a moderate read.

1

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, classic literature

Duke Vincentio departs Vienna under a pretext of travel, leaving the puritanical Angelo to enforce long-ignored moral laws.
2

No Exit

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, classic literature

Set in a single room furnished with Second Empire sofas, the play follows three deceased individuals—Garcin, Inès, and Estelle—as they realize they are their own torturers.
3

The Wall

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, classic literature

Sartre's collection takes its name from the title story, set during the Spanish Civil War.
4

Island

by Aldous Huxley

Also deep · philosophy, classic literature

The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
5

In the Penal Colony

by Franz Kafka

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, classic literature

In Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," an explorer witnesses a brutal execution machine in a remote penal colony.
6

Medea

by Euripides

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, classic literature

Euripides depicts the psychological collapse and subsequent vengeance of Medea, a Colchian princess abandoned by her husband, Jason.
7

Alcestis

by Euripides

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, classic literature

In this tragedy, King Admetus is granted a reprieve from his impending death on the condition that someone else dies in his place.
8

Eugene Onegin

by Alexander Pushkin

Also deep · philosophy, classic literature

Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse follows Eugene Onegin, a cynical aristocrat weary of Saint Petersburg’s high society.
9

Waiting for the Barbarians

by J.M. Coetzee

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, classic literature

A magistrate runs a small frontier town in an unnamed empire.
10

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, theoretical

The Tao Te Ching consists of eighty-one brief chapters outlining the relationship between the individual and the Tao, an underlying natural order that precedes human intervention.
11

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

Also deep · philosophy, classic literature

Ovid’s hexameter narrative tracks the history of the world from its chaotic origins to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
12

The Screwtape Letters

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep · philosophy, theoretical

Written as a series of instructional private letters from a senior demon to his novice nephew, Wormwood, this book details the psychological mechanics of spiritual failure.

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