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Books like Such a Long Journey

12 books with a reading profile close to Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

Also 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.
2

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, these interconnected novels follow the lives of two boys navigating the constraints of antebellum society.
3

Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Six-year-old Antonio Márez grows up in a New Mexico village in the 1940s, in a household divided between his father's wandering family and his mother's farming one.
4

Prodigal Summer

by Barbara Kingsolver

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

In the humid mountains of southern Appalachia, three narrative threads intersect through the lens of evolutionary biology and ecological interdependence.
5

Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
6

Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Jay Gatsby spends his life accumulating wealth through criminal channels to reclaim a past romance with Daisy Buchanan.
7

Silk and Insight

by Yukio Mishima

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Set in 1950s Japan, this novel dramatizes the labor dispute at a major textile factory to examine the reality of industrial paternalism.
8

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Professor Henry Higgins, a specialist in phonetics, bets that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a duchess by altering her speech and manners.
9

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.
10

A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Natalie Haynes reimagines the Trojan War through a choral narrative that centers the women, goddesses, and victims usually relegated to the margins of epic poetry.
11

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

by Truman Capote

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

The title novella follows an unnamed narrator in wartime New York who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
12

Assommoir

by Émile Zola

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

L’Assommoir documents the physical and moral decline of Gervaise Macquart, a laundress striving for domestic stability in the slums of Second Empire Paris.

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