Books like The Bluest Eye
12 books with a reading profile close to The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Lowland
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Subhash and Udayan are brothers born in Calcutta, separated by temperament and political conviction.
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2
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in 1930s Harlem, the narrative centers on John Grimes, a fourteen-year-old navigating a spiritual crisis during his birthday weekend.
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3
A Streetcar Named Desire
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Blanche DuBois, a displaced schoolteacher with a fragile mental state, arrives at the cramped New Orleans apartment of her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
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4
Housekeeping
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
In the isolated town of Fingerbone, Idaho, sisters Ruth and Lucille are raised by a succession of female relatives following their mother’s suicide.
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5
Cathedral
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Raymond Carver’s collection presents twelve short stories centered on blue-collar domesticity, alcoholism, and isolation in the American Pacific Northwest.
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Villette, a novel
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Lucy Snowe, a young woman without family or financial security, travels to the fictional Belgian city of Villette to become a teacher at a girls’ boarding school.
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7
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy, Margaret R. Higonnet
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman living in the rural English countryside, discovers her family descends from the aristocratic d’Urberville line.
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8
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Lucia Berlin's collected short stories draw on her own life: a childhood in mining towns, years in El Paso and Chile, work as a cleaning woman, hospital switchboard operator and teacher, and struggles with alcoholism an…
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9
The Stone Diaries
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Daisy Goodwill Flett is born in 1905 in a Manitoba limestone quarry town, her mother dying in childbirth without knowing she was pregnant.
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10
An Artist of the Floating World
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in post-war Japan, the narrative follows Masuji Ono, a retired painter navigating the physical and social ruins of his city.
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11
The Marriage Plot
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in the early 1980s, the story follows three Brown University graduates navigating the transition to adulthood.
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12
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
John Wheelwright narrates the life of his best friend, Owen Meany, a boy with a high-pitched voice who accidentally kills John’s mother with a foul ball during a Little League game in 1953.
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