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12 books with a reading profile close to Romancero gitano by Federico García Lorca. Deep, inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.

1

El llano en llamas

by Juan Rulfo

Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary

Juan Rulfo's collection has seventeen short stories set in the arid countryside of Jalisco in Mexico, after the Revolution and the Cristero War.
2

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

by William Faulkner

Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary

Faulkner's collection centers on the title story, in which the townspeople of Jefferson, Mississippi, attend the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, a reclusive woman from an old family.
3

Portnoy’s Complaint

by Philip Roth

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
4

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

Also deep · classic literature, literary

Robert Burns’s 1786 collection, originally titled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, documents the intersection of rural labor and linguistic identity.
5

Tartuffe

by Molière

Also deep · classic literature, literary

In seventeenth-century Paris, a wealthy patriarch named Orgon falls under the spell of Tartuffe, a man posing as a pious ascetic.
6

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep · classic literature, literary

Charles Strickland is an ordinary London stockbroker with a wife and two children until he abandons them without explanation and moves to Paris to paint.
7

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

This collection gathers short fiction depicting the mundane lives of late nineteenth-century Russian peasants, clerks, and aristocrats.
8

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

Also inward-looking and open-ended · classic literature, literary

Farquhar, a Southern planter, is being hanged for attempting to sabotage an Owl Creek bridge during the Civil War.
9

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat

Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary

Set in ancient Athens and an adjacent enchanted forest, this comedy follows four young lovers—Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius—whose romantic entanglements spiral into chaos due to the interference of the fairy k…
10

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

Also deep · classic literature, literary

Tony Last is a gentle English country gentleman who lives at Hetton Abbey, a Gothic mansion he loves, with his wife Brenda and young son John Andrew.
11

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Also inward-looking · classic literature, literary

Set in 1894, the narrative follows Louise Mallard as she receives news of her husband Brently’s death in a railroad disaster.
12

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also inward-looking · classic literature, literary

Set in the shifting social landscape of 1910s New York, the narrative follows Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a massive tycoon fortune, and his marriage to the socialite Gloria Gilbert.

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