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Books like Sanshirō

12 books with a reading profile close to Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

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.
2

The Complete Fairy Tales

by Oscar Wilde

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

This collection brings together stories including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, and The Nightingale and the Rose.
3

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

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.
4

The Portable Oscar Wilde

by Richard Aldington, Oscar Wilde

literary, classic literature

This 1946 compilation preserves the breadth of Oscar Wilde’s literary output, moving beyond his reputation as a mere wit.
5

Washington Square

by Henry James

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

In the affluent backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century New York, Catherine Sloper lives under the scrutiny of her father, Austin, a prominent physician who views his daughter as dull and unremarkable.
6

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Farquhar, a Southern planter, is being hanged for attempting to sabotage an Owl Creek bridge during the Civil War.
7

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Set in 1894, the narrative follows Louise Mallard as she receives news of her husband Brently’s death in a railroad disaster.
8

First Love

by Ivan Turgenev

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Sixteen-year-old Vladimir Petrovich becomes infatuated with Zinaida Alexandrovna, a twenty-one-year-old princess living in a neighboring summer villa.
9

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

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.
10

Tartuffe

by Molière

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

In seventeenth-century Paris, a wealthy patriarch named Orgon falls under the spell of Tartuffe, a man posing as a pious ascetic.
11

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

by George Orwell

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Gordon Comstock, a young London poet, has quit a good advertising job because he despises the worship of money.
12

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Eliot Rosewater, the alcoholic heir to a massive industrial fortune, abandons high society to relocate to a decaying town in Indiana.

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