Books like Outline
12 books with a reading profile close to Outline by Rachel Cusk. Deep, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Time Shelter
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Gospodinov's novel imagines a Swiss-run clinic that treats Alzheimer's patients by recreating the decade of their youth, with floors that look like the 1960s, 1970s and so on.
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Invisible Cities
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
In a garden within the Mongol dynasty, the aging ruler Kublai Khan listens to Marco Polo describe the far-flung outposts of an expanding empire.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln visits a Georgetown cemetery to mourn his young son, Willie, who has just died of typhoid fever.
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Weather
by Jenny Offill
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Lizzie Benson is a university librarian and former addict who begins answering mail for a climate change podcast hosted by her old mentor.
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100 Selected Poems
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
This collection showcases Edward Estlin Cummings’s rejection of standard grammar and punctuation in favor of visual typography.
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Flights
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Olga Tokarczuk’s work is a constellation of short stories, historical anecdotes, and anatomical observations centered on the physical reality of the human body in motion.
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Jack Gladney is a professor of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, living with his fourth wife, Babette, and their brood of children from various marriages.
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Frankissstein
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
The narrative follows two parallel timelines.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Milan Kundera's novel is composed of seven parts which are linked by themes of memory, forgetting and the exercise of power.
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Immortality
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
A woman in her sixties waves goodbye to a lifeguard at a pool, and the gesture is enough to give Kundera's narrator the idea for Agnès, a character he follows through the whole book.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Toru Okada is an unemployed man in suburban Tokyo whose mundane life fractures after his cat vanishes and his wife, Kumiko, leaves him without explanation.
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