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12 books with a reading profile close to Sun & Steel (Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket) by Yukio Mishima. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

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The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and others] Edited by Edmund Wilson

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

This collection centers on the psychological collapse of F.
2

Mortality

by Christopher Hitchens

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Christopher Hitchens chronicles his final eighteen months following a stage four esophageal cancer diagnosis.
3

Intimations

by Zadie Smith

Also deep · philosophy, memoir

Written during the early months of the 2020 pandemic, this collection consists of six essays that analyze the sudden contraction of physical space and the expansion of internal reflection.
4

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Written as a letter to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates frames the black body as the central site of American history and civic stability.
5

The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

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.
6

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

by Paul Kalanithi

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgical resident nearing the end of his decade-long training when he was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer.
7

De profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

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.
8

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

by Donald Miller

Also inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Donald Miller presents a collection of essays documenting his personal shift from structured, legalistic Christianity to a more organic faith.
9

A Grief Observed

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

C.S.
10

Bad Feminist

by Roxane Gay

philosophy, memoir

Roxane Gay uses this collection of essays to analyze the contradictions between feminist ideology and contemporary pop culture.
11

Letters to Milena

by Franz Kafka

Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary

Franz Kafka’s correspondence with Milena Jesenská begins as a professional exchange regarding the translation of his prose into Czech but quickly pivots into a private record of obsessive emotional attachment.
12

The power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary

Set in 1930s Mexico during the Cristero War, the narrative follows a nameless whiskey priest fleeing a paramilitary police force.

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