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12 books with a reading profile close to Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, and recounts her life to her friend Pheoby Watson.
2

Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates thirteen months of adolescence in a claustrophobic Worcestershire village during 1982.
3

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.
4

Martin Eden

by Jack London

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Martin Eden, a coarse and uneducated sailor, decides to overhaul his entire identity after meeting Ruth Morse, a woman from a refined bourgeois family.
5

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Set in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century, this collection of interconnected stories centers on George Willard, a young reporter for the local newspaper.
6

The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

The narrative follows the Ganguli family, beginning with Ashoke and Ashima’s arranged marriage and subsequent relocation from Calcutta to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
7

A Month in the Country

by J.L. Carr

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Tom Birkin arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby in 1920, physically scarred and suffering from a nervous facial twitch following his service in the Great War.
8

Breath, Eyes, Memory

by Edwidge Danticat

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Sophie Caco is raised by her aunt Atie in a Haitian village until, at twelve, she is sent to New York to join the mother she barely knows.
9

Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

In this collection of nine short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri depicts the domestic lives of Indian immigrants and their first-generation children navigating the friction between traditional heritage and American secularism.
10

Train Dreams

by Denis Johnson

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Robert Grainier is a day laborer in the American West during the early twentieth century.
11

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Set in the frozen landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story follows Ethan Frome, a farmer trapped in a hollow marriage to his sickly, suspicious wife, Zeena.
12

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

The story follows Leo Gursky, an elderly locksmith in New York who avoids solitude by making himself seen in public, unaware that a manual he wrote in Poland sixty years ago survived the Holocaust.

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