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Books like Prophet

12 books with a reading profile close to Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám

by Omar Khayyam, Tomoyé Press Bkp Cu-Banc

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

The Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám presents a series of four-line stanzas, or quatrains, attributed to the eleventh-century Persian polymath Omar Khayyám and translated into English by Edward FitzGerald.
2

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

Siddhartha, a young Brahman in ancient India, abandons his high-caste life and ritualistic obligations to seek an end to personal suffering.
3

Walden & Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

Henry Thoreau documents two years spent in a self-built cabin near Concord, Massachusetts, where he practiced deliberate solitude to study the economy of basic living.
4

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

by Aldo Leopold

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, inspirational

Aldo Leopold chronicles the ecological changes on his family’s Wisconsin farm through a monthly journal of Phenology, documenting the seasonal behaviors of migratory birds, local flora, and soil cycles.
5

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Set in a small Cuban fishing village in 1952, the story follows Santiago, an aging fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without a catch.
6

Manuscript Found in Accra

by Paulo Coelho

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, inspirational

In the year 1099, the people of Jerusalem gather in the city's square on the eve of an invasion by crusaders, and a wise Greek called the Copt invites them to share their thoughts.
7

The Razor’s Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Larry Darrell returns to Chicago from the battlefields of World War I, but find himself unable to settle into a conventional social life or a marriage with his fiancée, Isabel Bradley.
8

The power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Set in 1930s Mexico during the Cristero War, the narrative follows a nameless whiskey priest fleeing a paramilitary police force.
9

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

by Robert Frost

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

Robert Frost’s 1916 collection, originally titled Mountain Interval, centers on the rural landscapes and social dynamics of New England.
10

The Essential Rumi

by Coleman Barks

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

Coleman Barks translates the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic’s Persian verses into contemporary English free verse.
11

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Set in the fictional village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913, this three-act play strips away traditional theatrical scenery to focus on the daily rhythms of the Gibbs and Webb families.
12

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

by Victor Hugo

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Focused on the final six weeks of a prisoner awaiting execution in nineteenth-century France, Victor Hugo’s novel follows an unnamed protagonist from his trial at the Bicêtre Hospital to the guillotine at Place de Grève.

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