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Books like Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám

12 books with a reading profile close to Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyam, Tomoyé Press Bkp Cu-Banc, Paul Elder and Company (1909) Bkp Cu. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; 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

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.
3

The power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

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

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.
6

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, literary

This collection assembles the complete poetic output of Robert Frost, organizing over three hundred poems chronologically from his early twentieth-century debut through his final years.
7

The Razor’s Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

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 Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

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

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.
10

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
11

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

by Robert Frost

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Robert Frost’s 1916 collection, originally titled Mountain Interval, centers on the rural landscapes and social dynamics of New England.
12

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

In Algiers, a clerk named Meursault receives news of his mother’s death and attends her funeral with complete emotional detachment.

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