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Books like The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

12 books with a reading profile close to The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Solitaire Mystery

by Jostein Gaarder

Also deep · philosophy, narrative

Hans Thomas travels with his father from Norway to Greece to find his long-lost mother.
2

Three Daughters of Eve

by Elif Shafak

Also thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative

Peri is an Istanbul housewife in her thirties, married with a child, who is at a dinner party when a mugger takes her bag and she chases him.
3

Soumission

by Michel Houellebecq

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative

Set in a near-future France, the narrative follows François, a lonely academic specializing in the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans.
4

The Children Act

by Ian McEwan

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative

High Court judge Fiona Maye presides over the Family Division in London, where she adjudicates cases involving medical ethics and religious freedom.
5

Women Talking

by Miriam Toews

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative

Based on real events in the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia, this novel centers on eight Mennonite women meeting secretly in a hayloft.
6

The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac

philosophy, narrative

Ray Smith, a fictionalized version of Kerouac, navigates the contrast between urban jazz parties and the solitude of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
7

Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

Also deep · philosophy, narrative

Edward Abbey recounts his seasons as a seasonal ranger at Arches National Monument in the late 1950s.
8

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

Also deep and thought-provoking · 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.
9

Snow

by Orhan Pamuk

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative

Ka, an exiled poet, returns to Turkey to investigate a series of suicides among young women in the border city of Kars.
10

When We Cease to Understand the World

by Benjamín Labatut

Also deep · philosophy, narrative

Benjamín Labatut depicts the intersections between scientific discovery and psychological collapse through the lives of Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger.
11

The Book of Form and Emptiness

by Ruth Ozeki

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, narrative

Following the sudden death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear the voices of inanimate objects.
12

The Zahir

by Paulo Coelho

philosophy, narrative

Esther, a war correspondent, is married to a celebrated novelist, the narrator, who is living comfortably in Paris.

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