Books like Tender is the Night
12 books with a reading profile close to Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Villette
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Lucy Snowe, a plain, reserved young Englishwoman with no family, leaves for the town of Villette in the fictional country of Labassecour, a thinly disguised Belgium.
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2
Letter to His Father
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
In this unsent document, Franz Kafka addresses his father, Hermann Kafka, to dissect their dysfunctional relationship and the psychological damage caused by his father’s overbearing personality.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Ireland, navigating the strictures of a Catholic education and the turbulent political climate of Irish nationalism.
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4
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Isabel Archer, a spirited young American, travels to Victorian England to seek independence rather than a conventional marriage.
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Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Ariel contains the poems Sylvia Plath wrote during the final months of her life, focusing on domestic confinement, creative rebirth, and mental disintegration.
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The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
This chronological assembly spans Plath’s creative output from 1956 until her death in 1963.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Middle-aged history professor George and his wife Martha return home after a campus party and invite a younger couple, Nick and Honey, for late-night drinks.
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Lolita
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Humbert Humbert is an academic who feels an intense attraction to young girls he calls nymphets.
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The End of the Affair
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in London during and after the Blitz, the novel follows Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who begins a physical relationship with Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant.
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Another Country
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Set in mid-century Greenwich Village and Harlem, the narrative begins with the suicide of Rufus Scott, a Black jazz percussionist broken by poverty and a volatile interracial relationship.
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11
Othello
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In seventeenth-century Venice and Cyprus, a high-ranking Moorish general named Othello secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of a nobleman.
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Nora Helmer lives as a pampered wife and mother under the strict domestic authority of her husband, Torvald.
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