Books like The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
12 books with a reading profile close to The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
Veronica Hegarty is a middle-aged Dublin mother of two who attends the wake of her brother Liam, who drowned himself in the sea at Brighton.
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Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
Two brown girls in a London council estate meet at a dance class in the 1980s.
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Lost Children Archive
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
A family of four travels by car from New York City to the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.
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Unaccustomed Earth
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
In this collection of short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri focuses on the private lives of Bengali immigrant families living in New England suburbs and London.
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BRAWLER
by Lauren Groff
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
This short story collection tracks people navigating the friction between their internal desires and the physical environments of modern Florida and historical Europe.
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Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
A Black writer, whose name we never learn, is on a book tour for his novel, and the story follows him as he travels and tries to carry on while his mind seems to drift.
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Assembly
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
In this concise novel, an unnamed Black British woman prepares for a weekend party at her white boyfriend’s family estate.
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Portnoy’s Complaint
by Philip Roth
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
This collection gathers short fiction depicting the mundane lives of late nineteenth-century Russian peasants, clerks, and aristocrats.
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Idaho
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
On a hot August afternoon in North Idaho, Jenny Mitchell kills her younger daughter, May, with a hatchet while her husband, Wade, and older daughter, June, are nearby.
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Wolf in White Van
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
Sean Phillips is a man living with a severe facial disfigurement after a gunshot injury in his teens, and he spends his days alone in Southern California.
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The Sentence
Also deep and inward-looking · literary
Tookie, an Ojibwe woman who survived an unusual incarceration, works at a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis.
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