Books like Of Love and Other Demons
12 books with a reading profile close to Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
In post-war North London, two former soldiers, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, navigate a cityscape shaped by the aftermath of the British Empire.
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The World According to Garp
by John Irving
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
T.S.
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Still Life
by Sarah Winman
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
In 1944, British soldier Ulysses Temper meets art historian Evelyn Skinner in a ruined Tuscan cellar.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
John Wheelwright narrates the life of his best friend, Owen Meany, a boy with a high-pitched voice who accidentally kills John’s mother with a foul ball during a Little League game in 1953.
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
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The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in a crumbling house in the Himalayas against the 1980s Gorkhaland insurgency, the narrative follows Biju and Sai.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
Set in the 1960s, the narrative centers on the Biafran War through the intersecting lives of five characters.
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The Great Gatsby
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
During the summer of 1922 in Long Island, Nick Carraway observes the extravagant life of Jay Gatsby, a man who hosts massive parties to lure back his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
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The Stone Diaries
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Daisy Goodwill Flett is born in 1905 in a Manitoba limestone quarry town, her mother dying in childbirth without knowing she was pregnant.
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10
Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
This collection centers on the titular novella set in the fictional town of Macondo, narrated through the perspectives of a colonel, his daughter, and his grandson.
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The House of the Spirits
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
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The Edible Woman
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Marian McAlpin works at a consumer research firm, methodically cataloging the tastes of the public while maintaining a predictable relationship with her fiance, Peter.
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