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12 books with a reading profile close to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton Raffel. Deep; a moderate read.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by Gawain Poet

Also deep · literary, classic literature

At Camelot's New Year feast, a huge green knight rides in and offers a challenge: anyone may strike him with an axe, if he can return the blow in a year and a day.
2

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Angela Carter’s 1979 collection reimagines traditional European folk tales, such as Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, and Puss-in-Boots, through a sensory and gothic lens.
3

Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

by Thomas Malory

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Thomas Malory compiled and reimagined disparate French and English sources to create this definitive narrative of the Arthurian cycle.
4

The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Also deep · literary, classic literature

The Silmarillion chronicles the history of Middle-earth from its creation through a divine song to the end of the Third Age.
5

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Alice follows a young girl who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean realm governed by nonsense and wordplay.
6

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Also deep · literary, classic literature

In the fictional realm of Middle-earth, an ancient malevolence returns through the discovery of a gold ring that holds the soul of the Dark Lord Sauron.
7

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Robert Burns’s 1786 collection, originally titled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, documents the intersection of rural labor and linguistic identity.
8

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Set in ancient Athens and an adjacent enchanted forest, this comedy follows four young lovers—Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius—whose romantic entanglements spiral into chaos due to the interference of the fairy k…
9

Grendel

by John Gardner

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Grendel is told from the point of view of the monster from the Old English poem Beowulf.
10

Till We Have Faces

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep · literary, classic literature

In this reimagining of the Cupid and Psyche myth, Orual, the queen of Glome, writes a legalistic grievance against the gods.
11

El llano en llamas

by Juan Rulfo

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Juan Rulfo's collection has seventeen short stories set in the arid countryside of Jalisco in Mexico, after the Revolution and the Cristero War.
12

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

Also deep · 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.

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