Books like Speak, Memory
12 books with a reading profile close to Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, classic literature
This collection compiles the private correspondence sent by Vincent van Gogh, primarily to his brother Theo, between 1872 and his death in 1890.
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2
De profundis
by Oscar Wilde
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, classic literature
Written during his incarceration at Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde’s long letter to Lord Alfred Douglas details the emotional and financial ruin resulting from their relationship.
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3
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, classic literature
Isak Dinesen chronicles seventeen years spent managing a coffee plantation at the foot of the Ngong Hills in Kenya.
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The House of the Dead
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, classic literature
Alexandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Siberia for uxoricide, narrates his daily existence within a communal prison barracks.
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El llano en llamas
by Juan Rulfo
Also deep and contemplative · classic literature, literary
Juan Rulfo's collection has seventeen short stories set in the arid countryside of Jalisco in Mexico, after the Revolution and the Cristero War.
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The complete poetical works
by Robert Burns
Also deep and contemplative · classic literature, literary
Robert Burns’s 1786 collection, originally titled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, documents the intersection of rural labor and linguistic identity.
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Ceremony
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Tayo, a young man of mixed Laguna Pueblo and white heritage, returns to his reservation in New Mexico after fighting in the Second World War as a prisoner of the Japanese.
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
This collection gathers short fiction depicting the mundane lives of late nineteenth-century Russian peasants, clerks, and aristocrats.
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Poems by John Keats
by John Keats
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
John Keats’s debut collection, published in March 1817 rather than 1800, organizes lyrical meditations on the restorative capacity of the natural world and the permanence of classical mythology.
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Sentimental Education
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Frédéric Moreau moves to mid-nineteenth-century Paris with vague ambitions of artistic and social success.
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Macbeth
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
After receiving a prophecy from three witches that he will become King of Scotland, a general named Macbeth murders King Duncan to seize the throne.
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Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
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