Books like Tales of Power
12 books with a reading profile close to Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda. Inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Also inward-looking and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
Presented as an anthropological field report, the text follows Carlos Castaneda’s apprenticeship under a Yaqui shaman named don Juan Matus.
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2
The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa
Also inward-looking and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
On an unnamed island, objects disappear from public life and collective memory.
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3
The Guest Cat
Also inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
A married couple in a Tokyo suburb, both freelance writers with no children, live in a small rented cottage.
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4
After Dark
Also inward-looking and open-ended · narrative, experimental
Set in Tokyo between midnight and dawn, the story follows Mari Asai, a student reading alone in a late-night diner to avoid returning home.
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5
The Wall
Also inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
A woman is staying at a hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps with relatives when she wakes to find that an invisible, impassable wall has cut off the valley, and everything beyond it appears dead.
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Flights
Also open-ended · philosophy, narrative
Olga Tokarczuk’s work is a constellation of short stories, historical anecdotes, and anatomical observations centered on the physical reality of the human body in motion.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Also inward-looking and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
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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8
Boy, Snow, Bird
Also inward-looking · narrative, experimental
In 1953, Boy Novak flees her abusive father in New York City and settles in Flax Hill, Massachusetts.
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9
Second Place
by Rachel Cusk
Also inward-looking · narrative, experimental
The story follows M, a woman living in a remote coastal marsh, who invites a renowned painter named L to stay in her guest cottage, which she calls the second place.
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10
The White Book
by Han Kang
Also inward-looking and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
The White Book is a collection of sixty-five short prose pieces centered on the color white.
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11
Milk Fed
Also inward-looking and open-ended · narrative, experimental
Rachel is a twenty-four-year-old assistant in Los Angeles who manages a strict cycle of calorie counting and punishing exercise to suppress her physical and emotional desires.
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12
No One Is Talking About This
Also inward-looking and open-ended · narrative, experimental
The first half of the narrative follows a woman who has achieved minor celebrity status within a digital landscape called the portal.
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