Books like Mrs. Dalloway
12 books with a reading profile close to Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.
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The Waves
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
The Waves follows six friends—Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis—from childhood through late adulthood.
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The Street of Crocodiles
by Bruno Schulz
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
In a fictionalized version of the Polish city Drogobych, a narrator recounts his childhood centered on his father’s eccentric decline.
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3
To the Lighthouse
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
The novel centers on the Ramsay family and their guests during two summer visits to the Isle of Skye.
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4
As I Lay Dying
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
The Bundren family travels across rural Mississippi to transport the corpse of their matriarch, Addie, to her ancestral burial ground in Jefferson.
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The Golden Notebook
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Anna Wulf, an author living in 1950s London, attempts to counter her creative block and mental fragmentation by recording different facets of her life in four colored notebooks.
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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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The Sound and the Fury
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Set in early twentieth-century Mississippi, this novel documents the decline of the Compson family, a former aristocratic household now facing financial and moral ruin.
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8
The Unconsoled
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Ryder, a world-famous pianist, arrives in an unnamed European city to give a performance that the local citizens believe will solve their collective social crises.
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9
Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in late nineteenth-century Kristiania, the narrative follows an unnamed, destitute writer struggling to maintain his dignity while starving.
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10
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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Mysteries
by Knut Hamsun
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Johan Nilsen Nagel arrive unexpectedly in a coastal Norwegian village wearing a vibrant yellow suit, disrupting the local social order through erratic behavior and aggressive diatribes.
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12
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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