Books like Passing
12 books with a reading profile close to Passing by Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson, Tamar Mishmar. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Meek One
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
A middle-aged pawnbroker ponders the corpse of his young wife, who has just committed suicide by jumping from their window while holding an icon.
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2
The End of the Affair
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in London during and after the Blitz, the novel follows Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who begins a physical relationship with Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant.
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3
The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Konstantin Treplev, an aspiring playwright, stages an experimental outdoor performance to impress Nina Zarechnaya, a young actress whom he loves.
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4
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set on a Mississippi Delta cotton estate, the narrative centers on the Pollitt family during Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday.
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5
The Woman Destroyed
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
This collection consists of three long-form stories centered on the psychological and social erosion of aging women in 1960s France.
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6
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The novel chronicles the internal struggles of its narrator, Kochan, as he navigates his adolescence and young adulthood in post-war Japan.
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7
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Nora Helmer lives as a pampered wife and mother under the strict domestic authority of her husband, Torvald.
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8
Oblomov
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a young Russian nobleman who lives in a state of terminal inertia within his dusty St.
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9
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Middle-aged history professor George and his wife Martha return home after a campus party and invite a younger couple, Nick and Honey, for late-night drinks.
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10
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Noboru, a thirteen-year-old boy in Yokohama, belongs to a secret gang of youths who reject adult morality in favor of a cold, objective nihilism.
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11
The Heart of the Matter
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Henry Scobie, a deputy police commissioner in a West African British colony during the Second World War, is a conscientious Catholic who has been passed over for promotion.
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12
Kokoro
by Natsume Sōseki, Edwin McClellan
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The narrative centers on a university student in Tokyo who befriends an older, cynical intellectual he calls Sensei.
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