Books like The Buried Giant
12 books with a reading profile close to The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4)
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Tenar, once a high priestess and now a widow, lives a quiet life farming on the island of Gont until she adopts Therru, a girl severely burned and scarred by her own family.
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
After a cargo ship sinks in the Pacific Ocean, sixteen-year-old Pi Patel finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with an adult Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
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Momo
by Michael Ende
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Michael Ende's 'Momo' is a captivating allegorical fantasy that tells the story of a mysterious little girl named Momo who possesses the unique ability to listen.
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Kafka on the Shore
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
The narrative follows fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home to escape an Oedipal curse prophesied by his father.
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Ka, an exiled poet, returns to Turkey to investigate a series of suicides among young women in the border city of Kars.
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Following the sudden death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear the voices of inanimate objects.
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Annie Dillard uses her home in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley as an observatory to document the biological mechanics of the natural world.
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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
On a remote island in British Columbia, a novelist named Ruth finds the washed-up diary of Nao, a sixteen-year-old girl living in Tokyo.
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Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Based on real events in the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia, this novel centers on eight Mennonite women meeting secretly in a hayloft.
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The Farthest Shore
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
In Earthsea, magic is failing as equilibrium gives way to a sterile void.
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The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
High Court judge Fiona Maye presides over the Family Division in London, where she adjudicates cases involving medical ethics and religious freedom.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Set in a luxury Parisian apartment building, the story follows Renée Michel, a fifty-four-year-old concierge who hides her deep knowledge of Kant, Tolstoy, and art behind a facade of working-class dullness.
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