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Books like Nausea

12 books with a reading profile close to Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

This collection gathers the lyrical output of a recluse who examined the intersections of nature, mortality, and the inner self.
2

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Charles Arrowby, a vanity-driven theater director, retires to a secluded coastal house to write his memoirs and escape his past.
3

WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS

by J. W. von Goethe

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Wilhelm Meister begins as a merchant’s son who abandons his family’s commercial expectations to join a troupe of traveling actors.
4

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Charles Marlow, a seasoned sailor, narrates his passage aboard a steamship into the Congo Free State to retrieve Mr.
5

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · 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.
6

The Idiot

by Frank J. Morlock, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

In this dramatic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Frank J.
7

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

by W.B. Yeats

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

This volume tracks the evolution of William Butler Yeats’s poetic output across four decades, charting a progression from early Victorian romanticism to a starker, modernist aesthetic.
8

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to the rigid social circles of St.
9

The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

This volume gathers the short stories Franz Kafka wrote and published during his lifetime, plus other pieces released after his death.
10

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Heinrich Faust is a scholar who has mastered philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, yet remains dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge.
11

Disgrace

by J.M. Coetzee

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

David Lurie, a communications professor in post-apartheid Cape Town, loses his position after an impulsive affair with a student and his subsequent refusal to offer a sincere public apology.
12

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Hans Castorp, a young engineer, visits his cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, intending to stay for three weeks.

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