Books like Tao Te Ching
12 books with a reading profile close to Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.
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1
Rubāʻīyāt
by Omar Khayyam
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
This 1870 edition presents a collection of quatrains attributed to the eleventh-century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
In Algiers, a clerk named Meursault receives news of his mother’s death and attends her funeral with complete emotional detachment.
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The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman and his family’s sole financial provider, wakes up one morning to find he has become a giant, literal insect.
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Holy Bible: New International Version
by Anonymous
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, theoretical
This volume compiles sixty-six distinct books divided into the Old and New Testaments.
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In Praise of Shadows
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, theoretical
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki examines the collision between traditional Japanese aesthetics and Western modernization.
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The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Giovanni Drogo, a young officer, is posted to the Bastiani Fortress, an isolated outpost on the northern frontier overlooking a barren plain.
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The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, theoretical
Written as a series of instructional private letters from a senior demon to his novice nephew, Wormwood, this book details the psychological mechanics of spiritual failure.
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Songs of innocence and of experience
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
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Waiting for the Barbarians
by J.M. Coetzee
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
A magistrate runs a small frontier town in an unnamed empire.
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11
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
A cynical protagonist, convinced that nothing in the universe possesses objective value, decides to commit suicide.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, theoretical
The narrative follows the moral decay of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons: the impulsive soldier Dmitri, the intellectual atheist Ivan, and the novice monk Alyosha.
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