Books like Siddhartha
12 books with a reading profile close to Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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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.
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
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.
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3
The Essential Rumi
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Coleman Barks translates the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic’s Persian verses into contemporary English free verse.
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4
The Old Man and the Sea
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
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.
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The Razor’s Edge
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.
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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.
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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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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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9
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
A cynical protagonist, convinced that nothing in the universe possesses objective value, decides to commit suicide.
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10
The power and the Glory
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.
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11
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.
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Our Town
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Set in the fictional village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913, this three-act play strips away traditional theatrical scenery to focus on the daily rhythms of the Gibbs and Webb families.
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