Books like Silas Marner
12 books with a reading profile close to Silas Marner by George Eliot, John O'Connor, Mary Anne Evans, Hugh Thomson, Julius Frese. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Namesake
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
The narrative follows the Ganguli family, beginning with Ashoke and Ashima’s arranged marriage and subsequent relocation from Calcutta to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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2
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
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3
Ethan Frome
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in the frozen landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story follows Ethan Frome, a farmer trapped in a hollow marriage to his sickly, suspicious wife, Zeena.
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4
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Sophie Caco is raised by her aunt Atie in a Haitian village until, at twelve, she is sent to New York to join the mother she barely knows.
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5
Stone Butch Blues
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jess Goldberg grows up in the 1940s and 1950s in Buffalo, New York, a working-class child who does not fit gender expectations.
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6
Bastard Out of Carolina
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright grows up in Greenville, South Carolina, within a family cycle of poverty, violence, and heavy drinking.
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7
The House of the Spirits
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
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8
Martin Eden
by Jack London
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Martin Eden, a coarse and uneducated sailor, decides to overhaul his entire identity after meeting Ruth Morse, a woman from a refined bourgeois family.
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9
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
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10
The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ruth Young, a ghostwriter in San Francisco, struggles to communicate with her mother, LuLing, whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic due to dementia.
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11
Still Life
by Sarah Winman
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
In 1944, British soldier Ulysses Temper meets art historian Evelyn Skinner in a ruined Tuscan cellar.
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12
Out Stealing Horses
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man, has moved to a remote cabin in eastern Norway to live alone with his dog.
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