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12 books with a reading profile close to Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot. Deep and thought-provoking; a demanding read.

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Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

Chichikov, a mysterious gentleman of middling rank and no obvious fortune, drives a britzka into a provincial Russian town and charms the local officials.
2

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Anonymous

Also deep · philosophy, dense

Gilgamesh, the ruler of Uruk, dominates his subjects until the gods create Enkidu, a feral man, to challenge him.
3

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

Alonso Quijano, an elderly man from La Mancha, loses his grip on reality after consuming a constant diet of chivalric tales.
4

Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

In this four-act drama, George Bernard Shaw uses the character of John Tanner, an intellectual revolutionary, to argue that women are the primary pursuers in human courtship.
5

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

Following their departure from the pit of Hell, Dante and his guide Virgil ascend the island-mountain of Purgatory.
6

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

by Sophocles

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

These three plays by Sophocles follow Thebes' royal family through its curse.
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

by Aeschylus

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

Aeschylus's trilogy, the only complete surviving set of Greek tragedies, follows the house of Atreus after the Trojan War.
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

This 1730 collection organizes the complete dramatic and poetic output of William Shakespeare, encompassing comedies, histories, and tragedies alongside his lyrical sequences.
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King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

In 1608, William Shakespeare’s tragedy follows an aging British monarch who abdicates his throne and divides his territory based on his daughters’ public professions of love.
10

Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

Ishmael, a schoolmaster seeking relief from a melancholy spirit, joins the crew of the Pequod, a whaling vessel departing from Nantucket.
11

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

Also deep · philosophy, dense

John Milton composed this epic poem in blank verse to justify the ways of God to men.
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The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï

by Лев Толстой

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense

This 1899 multivolume collection compiles the major literary output of Count Lev Tolstoy, encompassing his psychological epics, shorter fiction, and philosophical treatises.

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