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Books like Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

12 books with a reading profile close to Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

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.
2

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.
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

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.
5

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.
6

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.
7

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.
8

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

A cynical protagonist, convinced that nothing in the universe possesses objective value, decides to commit suicide.
9

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
10

A Grief Observed

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

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11

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.
12

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.

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