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Books like Saint Thomas Aquinas

12 books with a reading profile close to Saint Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton. Deep and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï

by Лев Толстой

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This 1899 multivolume collection compiles the major literary output of Count Lev Tolstoy, encompassing his psychological epics, shorter fiction, and philosophical treatises.
2

Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh

by Лев Толстой

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This 1882 collection consolidates the literary output of Lev Tolstoy, organizing his major novels, short fiction, and emerging pedagogical essays.
3

Blindness

by José Saramago

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

A sudden epidemic of "white blindness" strikes an unnamed city, leaving victims submerged in a milky void.
4

Essays of three decades

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This collection brings together sixteen of Mann’s non-fiction pieces written between 1911 and 1937, focusing on the intellectual heritage of Europe.
5

Dostoevsky

by Frank, Joseph

Also deep and contemplative · biography, dense

Joseph Frank situates Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary evolution within the heated ideological conflicts of nineteenth-century Russia.
6

Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

In this four-act drama, George Bernard Shaw uses the character of John Tanner, an intellectual revolutionary, to argue that women are the primary pursuers in human courtship.
7

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Anonymous

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Gilgamesh, the ruler of Uruk, dominates his subjects until the gods create Enkidu, a feral man, to challenge him.
8

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

by Sophocles

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

These three plays by Sophocles follow Thebes' royal family through its curse.
9

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Alonso Quijano, an elderly man from La Mancha, loses his grip on reality after consuming a constant diet of chivalric tales.
10

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Following their departure from the pit of Hell, Dante and his guide Virgil ascend the island-mountain of Purgatory.
11

Dune Messiah

by Frank Herbert

Also deep · philosophy, dense

Twelve years after his conquest of Arrakis, Paul Atreides reigns as Emperor of the Known Universe, yet he is trapped by the violent momentum of a galactic jihad he cannot halt.
12

Children of Dune

by Frank Herbert

Also deep · philosophy, dense

Nine years after Paul Atreides walked into the desert, his twin children, Leto II and Ghanima, face a fracturing empire.

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