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Books like Slaughterhouse-Five The Children's Crusade

12 books with a reading profile close to Slaughterhouse-Five The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. Deep, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

Shevek is a physicist living on Anarres, a barren moon where a society of Odonian anarchists survives through collective labor and the rejection of private property.
2

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

Ted Chiang’s debut collection contains eight stories rooted in scientific inquiry and rigorous logic.
3

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Also deep and contemplative · science fiction, literary

Billy Pilgrim is an American chaplain’s assistant who becomes "unstuck in time" after his capture by German soldiers during World War II.
4

Einstein’s Dreams

by Alan Lightman

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

Set in Bern, Switzerland, in 1905, this novel presents a series of thirty fictional dreams experienced by a young Albert Einstein while he works as a patent clerk.
5

Exhalation

by Ted Chiang

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

Exhalation is a collection of nine speculative stories that grapple with entropy, memory, and the mechanics of reality.
6

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

by José Saramago

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

José Saramago retells the life of Jesus, beginning with Joseph, who overhears soldiers talking about a coming massacre of infants in Bethlehem and does not warn the others.
7

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

by Machado de Assis

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary

Brás Cubas begins his narrative after his death, writing as a deceased man who recounts his life from the grave.
8

The Woman in the Dunes

by Kōbō Abe, Machi Abe

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

An entomologist named Niki is drawn into a strange village by a woman who lives in a pit.
9

Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, stand by a leafless tree on a barren road.
10

Solaris

by Stanisław Lem

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a research station hovering above Solaris, a planet entirely covered by a sentient, gelatinous ocean.
11

White Noise

by Don DeLillo

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary

Jack Gladney is a professor of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, living with his fourth wife, Babette, and their brood of children from various marriages.
12

Watchmen

by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction

Set in an alternate 1985 where costumed vigilantes are real and Richard Nixon remains President, the narrative begins with the murder of Edward Blake, known as the Comedian.

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