Books like Song of Solomon
12 books with a reading profile close to Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Complete Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
This 1971 collection brings together thirty-one stories set largely in the rural American South.
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2
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
Seymour "Swede" Levov represents the fulfillment of the mid-century American dream as a successful Newark businessman, star athlete, and family man.
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3
The God of Small Things
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
Set in Ayemenem, Kerala, during the late 1960s, the story follows fraternal twins Rahel and Estha as they navigate a rigid social hierarchy.
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4
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
Set in a fictional Midlands town during the 1830s, the narrative tracks the interconnected lives of Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate.
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Sula
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
In the segregated neighborhood of Medallion, Ohio, Nel Wright and Sula Peace share a girlhood bond that fractures as they enter adulthood.
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6
Doctor Zhivago
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
Set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil War, the narrative follows Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet who struggles to maintain his medical ethics and artistic integrity amidst social…
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Bleak House
Also deep and thought-provoking · dense, narrative
In nineteenth-century London, the protracted legal battle of Jarndyce and Jarndyce drags through the Court of Chancery, eroding the inheritance and sanity of those caught in its wake.
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8
Dubliners
by James Joyce
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
James Joyce’s collection of fifteen short stories chronicles the daily lives of middle-class Irish citizens at the turn of the twentieth century.
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9
Sentimental Education
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Frédéric Moreau moves to mid-nineteenth-century Paris with vague ambitions of artistic and social success.
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10
The Odyssey of Homer
by Homer
Also deep and contemplative · dense, narrative
Following the conclusion of the Trojan War, Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, begins a decade-long struggle to reach his home.
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The Sea
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, narrative
Max Morden, a retired art historian, returns to the Irish seaside town of Ballyless following the death of his wife, Anna.
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12
Another Country
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Set in mid-century Greenwich Village and Harlem, the narrative begins with the suicide of Rufus Scott, a Black jazz percussionist broken by poverty and a volatile interracial relationship.
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