Books like Nine Stories
12 books with a reading profile close to Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Cathedral
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Raymond Carver’s collection presents twelve short stories centered on blue-collar domesticity, alcoholism, and isolation in the American Pacific Northwest.
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2
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Short Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
The title novella follows a retired veteran who visits the post office every Friday, expecting a pension check that never arrives.
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3
Johnny Got His Gun
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, wakes up in a hospital bed to discover he is a victim of a massive artillery shell explosion.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Blanche DuBois, a displaced schoolteacher with a fragile mental state, arrives at the cramped New Orleans apartment of her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
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Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in a remote hot spring town buried under heavy winter drifts, the narrative follows Shimamura, an aesthetician from Tokyo who travels north to seek relief from his mundane urban life.
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The Sun Also Rises
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris, lives with a physical wound from the Great War that leaves him impotent.
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An Artist of the Floating World
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in post-war Japan, the narrative follows Masuji Ono, a retired painter navigating the physical and social ruins of his city.
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8
The Lowland
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Subhash and Udayan are brothers born in Calcutta, separated by temperament and political conviction.
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9
Train Dreams
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Robert Grainier is a day laborer in the American West during the early twentieth century.
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10
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Lucia Berlin's collected short stories draw on her own life: a childhood in mining towns, years in El Paso and Chile, work as a cleaning woman, hospital switchboard operator and teacher, and struggles with alcoholism an…
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11
Tokyo Ueno Station
by Yū Miri
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Kazu is a ghost who haunts the grounds of Tokyo’s Ueno Park, mirroring the era he spent living there as a homeless laborer.
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La tregua
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office worker, is nearing retirement.
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