Books like Soumission
12 books with a reading profile close to Soumission by Michel Houellebecq. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Solitaire Mystery
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Hans Thomas travels with his father from Norway to Greece to find his long-lost mother.
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Three Daughters of Eve
by Elif Shafak
Also thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative
Peri is an Istanbul housewife in her thirties, married with a child, who is at a dinner party when a mugger takes her bag and she chases him.
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The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative
High Court judge Fiona Maye presides over the Family Division in London, where she adjudicates cases involving medical ethics and religious freedom.
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Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative
Based on real events in the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia, this novel centers on eight Mennonite women meeting secretly in a hayloft.
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
Ka, an exiled poet, returns to Turkey to investigate a series of suicides among young women in the border city of Kars.
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Edward Abbey recounts his seasons as a seasonal ranger at Arches National Monument in the late 1950s.
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The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
philosophy, narrative
Ray Smith, a fictionalized version of Kerouac, navigates the contrast between urban jazz parties and the solitude of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Benjamín Labatut depicts the intersections between scientific discovery and psychological collapse through the lives of Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative
Set in a luxury Parisian apartment building, the story follows Renée Michel, a fifty-four-year-old concierge who hides her deep knowledge of Kant, Tolstoy, and art behind a facade of working-class dullness.
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Gulliver’s Travels
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon, recounts four separate voyages to remote corners of the world where he encounters societies that physicalize human absurdity.
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