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12 books with a reading profile close to Still Life by Sarah Winman. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
2

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

The story follows Leo Gursky, an elderly locksmith in New York who avoids solitude by making himself seen in public, unaware that a manual he wrote in Poland sixty years ago survived the Holocaust.
3

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
4

The World According to Garp

by John Irving

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

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5

The Cider House Rules

by John Irving

Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set in early twentieth-century Maine, the narrative follows Homer Wells, a perpetual orphan raised at St.
6

Of Love and Other Demons

by Gabriel García Márquez

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

In the old Colombian port of Cartagena, twelve-year-old Sierva María is the neglected daughter of a marquis.
7

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
8

Martin Eden

by Jack London

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Martin Eden, a coarse and uneducated sailor, decides to overhaul his entire identity after meeting Ruth Morse, a woman from a refined bourgeois family.
9

White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

Also deep and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

In post-war North London, two former soldiers, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, navigate a cityscape shaped by the aftermath of the British Empire.
10

The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Set in a crumbling house in the Himalayas against the 1980s Gorkhaland insurgency, the narrative follows Biju and Sai.
11

Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
12

Silas Marner

by George Eliot, John O'Connor

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature

Silas Marner is a reclusive weaver living in the village of Raveloe after being falsely accused of theft by his religious community in Lantern Yard.

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