Books like Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
12 books with a reading profile close to Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Time Shelter
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gospodinov's novel imagines a Swiss-run clinic that treats Alzheimer's patients by recreating the decade of their youth, with floors that look like the 1960s, 1970s and so on.
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Weather
by Jenny Offill
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Lizzie Benson is a university librarian and former addict who begins answering mail for a climate change podcast hosted by her old mentor.
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Faye, a British novelist, travels to Athens during a summer heatwave to teach a week-long creative writing course.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln visits a Georgetown cemetery to mourn his young son, Willie, who has just died of typhoid fever.
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Invisible Cities
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
In a garden within the Mongol dynasty, the aging ruler Kublai Khan listens to Marco Polo describe the far-flung outposts of an expanding empire.
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100 Selected Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
This collection showcases Edward Estlin Cummings’s rejection of standard grammar and punctuation in favor of visual typography.
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I Who Have Never Known Men
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Forty women live in an underground cage, guarded by silent men who never speak or touch them.
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Einstein’s Dreams
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Set in Bern, Switzerland, in 1905, this novel presents a series of thirty fictional dreams experienced by a young Albert Einstein while he works as a patent clerk.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Milan Kundera's novel is composed of seven parts which are linked by themes of memory, forgetting and the exercise of power.
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Waiting for Godot
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, stand by a leafless tree on a barren road.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Toru Okada is an unemployed man in suburban Tokyo whose mundane life fractures after his cat vanishes and his wife, Kumiko, leaves him without explanation.
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